Okinawa Prefecture announced on the 3rd that 6,180 people were newly confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.



The number of new infections has exceeded 6,000 for the first time, surpassing the previous record of 5,762 on the 30th of last month as the number of new infections announced on a single day.



With this, the number of confirmed infections in the prefecture reached 373,840.



Last month, it was announced that four people in their 80s and 90s died in Naha City, bringing the total number of deaths in the prefecture to 511.