According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the number of new infections in Japan announced on May 2 is 16,972, including airport quarantine. A total of 19 people have died in Japan: seven in Hokkaido, two in Chiba, two in Niigata, two in Okinawa, two in Aomori, one in Hyogo, one in Tokyo, one in Ishikawa, and one in Fukuoka, bringing the cumulative total to 74,569.

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 2nd.

▽ 33,742,983 (16,972) in Japan ▽ 4,379,543 (2,604) in Tokyo ▽ 2,847,847 (1,353) in Osaka ▽ 2,235,927 in Kanagawa (1,179)




▽Aichi Prefecture has 2,122,142 (846) ▽Saitama Prefecture has 1,812,221 (946) ▽Fukuoka Prefecture has 1,594,651 (600) ▽Hyogo Prefecture has 1,476,282 (418) ▽Chiba Prefecture has 1,475,889 (795)




▽Hokkaido 1,359,440 (1,260) ▽Shizuoka 871,826 (196) ▽Hiroshima 810,190 (130) ▽Kyoto 683,587 (379) ▽Ibaraki 641,614 (68)




▽Okinawa Prefecture 582,475 (382) ▽Gifu Prefecture 547,158 (386) ▽Miyagi Prefecture 543,093 (258) ▽Kumamoto Prefecture 537,213 (137) ▽Okayama Prefecture 493,602 people (124)




▽Nagano Prefecture 466,193 (279) ▽Niigata Prefecture 464,753 (512) ▽Mie Prefecture 463,492 (75) ▽ Kagoshima Prefecture 444,448 (128) ▽ Gunma Prefecture 444,121 (235)




▽Tochigi Prefecture 427,061 (307) ▽Fukushima Prefecture 409,606 (291) ▽Shiga Prefecture 376,165 (157) ▽Nara Prefecture 349,029 (164) ▽Nagasaki Prefecture 338,341 people (130)




▽Miyazaki Prefecture has 321,539 (73) ▽Ehime Prefecture has 318,847 (150) ▽Yamaguchi Prefecture has 316,613 people (101) ▽Oita Prefecture has 305,384 people (109) ▽Aomori Prefecture has 283,024 people (204)




▽Ishikawa 282,357 (225) ▽Saga 262,175 (98) ▽Kagawa 255,053 (148) ▽Wakayama 241,121 (64) Toyama 240,102 (242)




▽Iwate Prefecture 237,438 (205) ▽Yamagata Prefecture 230,672 (175) ▽Akita Prefecture 203,264 (287) ▽Fukui Prefecture 202,395 (99) ▽Yamanashi Prefecture 193,346 (157)




▽Kochi Prefecture 170,061 (54) ▽Shimane Prefecture 169,702 (71) ▽Tokushima Prefecture 168,016 (73) ▽Tottori Prefecture 143,816 people (98)




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 has reached 64 as of February 2.

The number of seriously ill patients increased by 9 compared to one day.

* 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, Labor and Welfare will publish prefectural data at 4 p.m. from September 27 last year
in accordance with the
simplification of the total number.
It turned out. NHK has been reporting
based on this data since September 28 last year.

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

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