Photo/Illutration A teacher at Honden Elementary School in Osaka’s Nishi Ward gives an online math class to his pupils on April 26. (Toyokazu Kosugi)

The Osaka prefectural government confirmed 1,231 new coronavirus infections on April 27, the prefecture's second highest daily count after the 1,242 cases reported on April 21.

The latest daily tally brought the prefecture’s cumulative number of COVID-19 cases to 77,780. The death toll from the virus in the prefecture rose by 14 on April 27 to reach 1,390.