THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 18, 2021 at 18:37 JST
Officials with the Osaka prefectural and city governments and a police officer makes the rounds in the city's normally bustling Minami district on April 15 to call on residents to stay at home as a precaution against novel coronavirus infection. (Yoshiaki Arai)
Osaka Prefecture logged a record 1,220 fresh cases of COVID-19 on April 18, the sixth straight day for the daily count to top 1,000, health officials said.
The previous high of 1,209 cases was marked two days earlier. The latest figure pushed the accumulative total of cases in the prefecture to 68,038.
Authorities also reported three deaths from COVID-19 on April 18, bringing the prefecture’s overall toll to 1,269.
Neighboring Hyogo Prefecture reported 406 fresh cases of novel coronavirus infection the same day, pushing its overall total to 25,750.
On April 17, it confirmed a record 541 cases, which marked the second straight day for the daily record to be broken.
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