On the 15th, it was announced that a total of 226 people were newly infected with the new coronavirus in Kanagawa prefecture.
Meanwhile, the prefecture announced that a man in his 70s in Ayase, where the infection had been confirmed, had died.
In addition, the city of Yokohama corrected that the man in his twenties announced on the 10th of this month was not infected based on the results of subsequent tests.
According to NHK's summary, the number of infected people announced in the prefecture is now 15,396, of which 227 have died.