Yamaguchi Prefecture and Shimonoseki City announced on the 13th that 1,702 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
With this, the total number of confirmed infections in the prefecture has reached 96,349.
In addition, the prefecture announced that a total of 6 men and women in their 70s and 90s who were infected with the new coronavirus died in the prefecture, bringing the number of deaths in the prefecture to 230.