Yamaguchi Prefecture and Shimonoseki City announced on the 8th that 1202 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
With this, the total number of confirmed infections in the prefecture has reached 86,268.
In addition, the prefecture and Shimonoseki City announced that a total of five people, including a man in his 70s, two women in their 90s, and two women over the age of 100 who were infected with the new coronavirus, died. , the death toll of infected people in the prefecture reached 215.