Hyogo Prefecture announced on the 7th that 10,598 people in the prefecture were newly confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
1161 people increased compared to Sunday of the previous week.
In addition, Amagasaki City withdrew the six people announced as infected people from the 5th to the 6th because they were all duplicates.
The number of confirmed infections in the prefecture reached 675,553.
The number of infected people does not include those who are self-medicating.
As of the 6th, the number of seriously ill patients decreased by 3 from the previous day to 33.
The cities of Kobe, Amagasaki, and Nishinomiya also announced a total of nine deaths of infected people.
A total of 2,374 people have died from the virus in the prefecture.