According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of newly infected people in Japan announced on the 18th is 7066,<>, including airport quarantine.

In addition, the number of
people who died in Japan ▽ 6 people in Tokyo ▽ 4 people in Chiba Prefecture ▽ 3 people in Saitama Prefecture ▽ 3 people in Osaka Prefecture ▽ 3 people in Okinawa Prefecture

▽ 2 people in Kanagawa Prefecture ▽ 2 people in Fukushima


Prefecture

▽ 1 person
▽1 person in Oita Prefecture ▽ 1 person in Nara

Prefecture ▽ 1 person in Miyagi Prefecture ▽ 1 person in Miyazaki Prefecture ▽ 1 person in Yamagata Prefecture

▽ 1 person in Gifu Prefecture


▽ 1
person in Iwate Prefecture ▽ 1 person in Hiroshima Prefecture ▽ 1 person in Aichi Prefecture ▽ 1 person in Tochigi Prefecture ▽ 1 person in Kumamoto Prefecture ▽ 1 person in Akita Prefecture




▽ 1 person in Gunma Prefecture for
a total of 38 people, for a cumulative total of 73,477 people.

The total number of people confirmed to be infected in Japan is as follows. The figures in parentheses are the number of new infections on the 18th.

▽Nationwide: 33,368,365 (7,066) ▽Tokyo: 4,329,953 (627) ▽Osaka: 2,822,667 (390) ▽Kanagawa: 2,211,143 (395)




▽Aichi Prefecture has 2,104,049 (403) ▽Saitama Prefecture has 1,793,965 (357) ▽Fukuoka Prefecture has 1,582,455 (274) ▽Hyogo Prefecture has 1,463,980 (241) ▽Chiba Prefecture has 1,459,188 (289)




▽Hokkaido 1,336,569 (328) ▽Shizuoka 864,421 (169) ▽Hiroshima 798,301 (214) ▽Kyoto 675,558 (124) Ibaraki 635,566 (133)




▽Okinawa Prefecture 576,796 (74) ▽Gifu Prefecture 539,922 people (151) ▽Miyagi Prefecture 535,760 people (150) ▽Kumamoto Prefecture 533,471 people (93) ▽ Okayama Prefecture 489,788 people (112)




▽Mie Prefecture has 458,914 (97) ▽Nagano Prefecture has 456,706 (162) ▽Niigata Prefecture has 454,781 (224) ▽Kagoshima Prefecture has 440,719 (123) ▽Gunma Prefecture has 438,981 people (137)




▽Tochigi Prefecture 421,137 (113) ▽Fukushima Prefecture 402,826 (191) ▽Shiga Prefecture 372,761 (94) ▽Nara Prefecture 345,117 (94) Nagasaki Prefecture 335,912 (59)




▽Miyazaki Prefecture has 319,548 (72) ▽Ehime Prefecture has 315,593 (102) ▽Yamaguchi Prefecture has 313,050 (143) ▽Oita Prefecture has 302,588 people (59) ▽Aomori Prefecture has 278,682 people (64)




▽Ishikawa 277,727 (71) ▽Saga 260,534 (24) ▽Kagawa 251,872 (68) ▽Wakayama 238,184 (57) Toyama 236,107 (50)




▽Iwate Prefecture has 234,104 (59) ▽Yamagata Prefecture has 225,996 (90) ▽Akita Prefecture has 199,687 (50) ▽Fukui Prefecture has 199,329 (54) ▽Yamanashi Prefecture has 189,806 people (55)




▽Kochi Prefecture has 168,874 (37) ▽Shimane Prefecture has 167,625 (80) ▽Tokushima Prefecture has 166,130 (55) ▽Tottori Prefecture has 141,374 people (58)




In addition, 86 seriously ill people who have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus who are on ventilators, ECMOs, or receiving treatment in intensive care units are 86 as of March 18.

The number of seriously ill patients decreased by 10 compared to the 17th.


* NHK has been compiling and reporting the number of people infected with the new corona through broadcasting stations in various regions, but the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has decided to publish prefectural data at 4 p.m. from September 27 last year in order to simplify the grasp of the total number.

NHK has been reporting based on this data since September 28 last year.

* The cumulative number of infected people does not include infected people at airports and ports quarantine, cruise ships, and charter flights until September 26 last year.

* The cumulative number of deaths does not include deaths at airports and ports, or on cruise ships.