Hyogo Prefecture announced on the 20th that 11,583 new people in the prefecture were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
Compared to last Saturday, nearly 1700 people have increased.
In addition, the prefecture and Amagasaki City withdrew the two people announced as infected on the 5th and 19th of this month, as they were later confirmed to be negative.
With this, the number of confirmed infections in Hyogo Prefecture has reached 806,724.
The number of infected people does not include those who are self-medicating.
The number of seriously ill patients increased by 5 from the 19th to 44.
In addition, Kobe, Amagasaki, and Akashi announced a total of seven deaths of infected people.
With this, the number of people who died in Hyogo Prefecture after being infected was 2,521.