Hyogo Prefecture announced on the 2nd that 9,621 people in the prefecture were newly confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
There were 866 more cases than Tuesday of the previous week, making it the highest number of infected people ever on Tuesday.
In addition, Himeji City, Amagasaki City, and Akashi City have withdrawn the seven people announced from the 22nd of last month to the 1st of this month, saying that they were duplicates.
The number of confirmed infections in the prefecture reached 620,398.
As of the 1st, the number of seriously ill patients increased by 5 from the previous day to 30.
The cities of Kobe, Nishinomiya, and Akashi also announced a total of four deaths of infected people.
A total of 2,331 people have died from the virus in the prefecture.