Increased for 2 consecutive weeks.

Breaking news "Gunma Prefecture".
By AI of "Isesaki FM".

COVID-19 infections increase for two consecutive weeks, with multiple deaths.

On the 9th, the prefecture announced that the number of COVID-19 patients reported from 85 medical institutions in the prefecture from the 1st to the 7th of this month was 4.72 per medical institution, an increase of 1.30 from the previous week.
This is the first time in 13 weeks since early April that the number has increased two weeks in a row to more than four.
It was also confirmed that two residents of one elderly care facility died due to a mass infection.
By public health center, Tone-Numata had 15 cases, Shibukawa had 6.83 cases, and Maebashi and Fujioka had six cases each.