THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 22, 2021 at 18:48 JST
Soemoncho-dori street in a bustling entertainment district in Osaka on April 19 (Takaharu Yagi)
Osaka Prefecture confirmed 1,167 new coronavirus infections on April 22, its fifth-highest daily count.
Osaka’s daily tally has topped 1,000 for nine of the past 10 days. The latest figure brought the prefecture’s cumulative number of COVID-19 cases to 72,316.
The death toll from the virus in the prefecture rose by eight on April 22 to reach 1,309.
Hyogo Prefecture logged 547 new COVID-19 cases on April 22, its second-highest daily count after the 563 reported on April 21. So far, the prefecture has confirmed 27,575 patients being infected with the novel coronavirus, although that figure includes those who have tested positive for the virus twice or more.
Nara Prefecture reported 125 new cases on April 22, exceeding the previous high for the second consecutive day. The latest count pushed the prefecture’s total number of cases to 5,393.
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