According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the number of newly infected people in Japan announced on the 17th is 3499,2, including airport quarantine.

A total of nine people have died in Japan: two in Osaka, two in Kagawa, one in Saga, one in Hyogo, one in Miyagi, one in Yamaguchi, and one in Tokyo, bringing the cumulative total to 2,1.

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 17th.

▽Nationwide: 3358,4222,3499 (435,6985) ▽Tokyo: 474,283,6220 (195) ▽Osaka: 222,4920,278 (211) Kanagawa 4980,99,180 (3957) Aichi: 181,158,9533 (59)




▽Saitama 147,1316,123 (146) ▽Fukuoka 8769,183,134 (8346) ▽Hyogo 163,86,8888 (84) ▽Chiba 80,6125,202 (67) Hokkaido 9812,58,63 (9368)




▽Shizuoka Prefecture 129,57 (9436) ▽Hiroshima Prefecture 64,54 people (4047) ▽Kyoto Prefecture 65,54 people (126) ▽Ibaraki Prefecture 74,53 people (5849) ▽Okinawa Prefecture 37,49 people (2213)




▽Gifu Prefecture has 37,46 (2521) ▽Miyagi Prefecture has 98,46 (1827) ▽Kumamoto Prefecture has 80,46 (625) ▽Okayama Prefecture has 65,44 (3374) ▽Nagano Prefecture has 39,44 people (2090) ▽Mie Prefecture has 42,42 people (4707)





▽Niigata Prefecture 49,40 (7187) ▽Kagoshima Prefecture 23,37 (4719) ▽Gunma Prefecture 21,34 (7247) ▽Tochigi Prefecture 36,33 (7384) ▽Fukushima Prefecture 11,32 (753)




▽Shiga Prefecture has 27,31 (7384) ▽Nara Prefecture has 38,31 (5433) ▽Nagasaki Prefecture has 21,30 people (4281) ▽Miyazaki Prefecture has 21,28 people (1087) ▽ Ehime Prefecture has 47,28 people (182) Yamaguchi Prefecture has 55,26 people (1551)





▽Oita Prefecture has 10,25 (3797) ▽Aomori Prefecture has 29,24 (258) ▽Ishikawa Prefecture has 26,23 (7868) ▽Saga Prefecture has 21,23 people (5928) ▽Kagawa Prefecture has 40,22 people (8809)




▽Wakayama Prefecture has 56,20 (1517) ▽Toyama Prefecture has 28,20 (1250) ▽Iwate Prefecture has 17,19 (1995) ▽Yamagata Prefecture has 26,16 (9663) ▽Akita Prefecture has 17,16 people (9220)




▽Fukui Prefecture has 12,16 (7458) ▽Yamanashi Prefecture has 16,14 (3068) ▽Kochi Prefecture has 23,17 people (57) ▽Shimane Prefecture has 16,1 people (9) ▽Tokushima Prefecture has 27,4 people (9)




▽ Tottori Prefecture has 28,9 people (26)

In addition, there were <> seriously ill people confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus who were on ventilators, ECMOs, or receiving treatment in intensive care units as of March <>.

The number of seriously ill patients decreased by one compared to the <>th.

* NHK has been compiling and reporting the number of people infected with the new corona through local broadcasting stations, but the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has decided to publish prefectural data at <> p.m. from September <> last year in order to simplify the grasp of the total number.
NHK has been reporting based on this data since September <> last year.

* The cumulative number of infected people does not include those infected at airport and port quarantines, cruise ships, and charter flights until September <> last year.

* The cumulative number of deaths does not include airport and port quarantines and cruise ship deaths.