The number of newly infected people of the new coronavirus announced on the 17th in Chiba prefecture was 148.
This is the second highest number of infected people announced on the 1st, after the 10th of this month.
With this, the total number of infected people announced in the prefecture is 8644.
In addition, it was announced that two people who had been confirmed to be infected in the prefecture had died, bringing the total number of infected people to 104.