Yamaguchi Prefecture and Shimonoseki City announced on the 20th that 2,835 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
With this, the total number of confirmed infections in the prefecture has reached 115,092.
In addition, the prefecture and Shimonoseki City announced that eight men and women in their 70s and 90s who were infected with the new coronavirus died, bringing the number of deaths in the prefecture to 273.