Nagasaki Prefecture and others announced on the 16th that a total of 1,980 people were newly confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
A total of 137,525 people were confirmed to be infected in the prefecture, excluding cruise ship crew members anchored at Nagasaki Port.
In addition, Nagasaki Prefecture and others announced that a total of four people, a man in his 80s and a woman in her 70s living in Nagasaki City, and two people whose address, age, and gender were not disclosed, died.