In Kumamoto Prefecture, it was announced on the 16th that 2,769 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
On the other hand, the notification of one outbreak announced so far was withdrawn, and a total of 10 people were double counted, so they were excluded from the cumulative total.
With this, the total number of infected people in the prefecture is 240,686.
In addition, eight deaths were announced, bringing the total number of people who died in the prefecture who tested positive to 454.