Nagasaki Prefecture and others announced on the 11th that a total of 3,398 people were newly confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
The number of new infections in a single day is the highest so far, and it is the second consecutive day that the number has exceeded 3,000.
A total of 125,662 people were confirmed to be infected in the prefecture, excluding cruise ship crew members anchored at Nagasaki Port.
In addition, the prefecture and Sasebo City announced that two people died, one whose age and gender were undisclosed and one man in his 60s in Sasebo City who was infected and recuperating.