According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the number of newly infected people in Japan announced on the 18th is 1,1589, including airport quarantine.
A total of 7 people have died in Japan: seven in Mie, two in Hokkaido, two in Chiba, two in Saitama, two in Ishikawa, one in Hyogo, one in Yamagata, one in Tokyo, one in Gunma, and one in Kagoshima, bringing the cumulative total to 2,2.
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 2th.
▽ 2,1,1 (1,1) in Japan ▽ 1,20,7 in Tokyo (4264,18) ▽ 3359,5834,1 (1589) in Osaka ▽ 435,8684,1696 in Kanagawa (283)
▽Aichi Prefecture has 7107,875,222 (5652) ▽Saitama Prefecture has 784,211,5546 (582) ▽Fukuoka Prefecture has 180,4532,574 (158) ▽Hyogo Prefecture has 9921,422,147 (1537) ▽Chiba Prefecture has 228,146,9297 (528)
▽Hokkaido has 134,9150,804 (86) ▽Shizuoka Prefecture has 9079,191 (80) ▽Hiroshima Prefecture has 6220,78 (68) ▽Kyoto Prefecture has 155,292 (63) ▽Ibaraki Prefecture has 9419,51 people (57)
▽Okinawa Prefecture 9621,182 (54) ▽Gifu Prefecture 4286,239 (54) ▽Miyagi Prefecture 301,170 (53) ▽Kumamoto Prefecture 5987,135 (49) ▽Okayama Prefecture 2328,115 (46)
▽Nagano Prefecture 2735,214 (46) ▽Mie Prefecture 1875,49 (46) ▽Niigata Prefecture 967,342 (44) ▽Kagoshima Prefecture 3461,87 (44) ▽Gunma Prefecture 2253,163 (42)
Tochigi 4918,209 (40) Fukushima 7430,245 (37) Shiga 4869,150 (34) Nara 7387,131 (33) Nagasaki 7438,54 (32)
▽Miyazaki Prefecture has 814,61 (31) ▽Ehime Prefecture has 7515,131 (31) ▽Yamaguchi Prefecture has 5569,136 (30) ▽Oita Prefecture has 4334,51 people (28) ▽Aomori Prefecture has 1275,182 people (28)
▽Ishikawa 381,199 (26) ▽Saga 1619,68 (25) ▽Kagawa 3926,129 (24) ▽Wakayama 308,50 (23) Toyama 8033,159 (23)
▽Iwate Prefecture 6061,133 (22) ▽Yamagata Prefecture 8996,187 (20) ▽Akita Prefecture 1657,135 (20) ▽Fukui Prefecture 1369,119 (19) ▽Yamanashi Prefecture 2071,76 (16)
▽Kochi Prefecture has 9703,32 (16) ▽Shimane Prefecture has 9265,45 (16) ▽Tokushima Prefecture has 7510,50 (14) ▽Tottori Prefecture has 3124,56 (18)
In addition, the number of seriously ill people confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus who are on ventilators, ECMOs, or receiving treatment in intensive care units is 55 as of March 17.
The number of seriously ill patients decreased by two compared to the 2th.
* 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 9 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 4 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 9 last year.
* The cumulative number of deaths does not include airport and port quarantines and cruise ship deaths.