Hyogo Prefecture announced on the 13th that 9,888 people in the prefecture were newly confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
1718 people decreased compared to Saturday of the previous week.
In addition, Hyogo Prefecture and Amagasaki City have withdrawn the four people announced as infected from the 7th to the 12th of this month, saying that the report of the outbreak was withdrawn from the medical institution or duplicated.
The number of confirmed infections in the prefecture reached 738,511.
The number of infected people does not include those who are self-medicating.
As of the 12th, the number of seriously ill patients increased by one from the previous day to 42.
In addition, the cities of Kobe, Himeji, and Nishinomiya announced a total of nine deaths of infected people.
A total of 2,431 people have died from the virus in the prefecture.