The number of newly infected people with the new coronavirus is on the rise. The announcement of the number of infected people, which is currently done every day, has ended, and it will be changed to a weekly "fixed point grasp" announcement.
The national average number of new cases per day is more than 1,33, more than 1300,1 more than last week. 36 prefectures are higher than the previous week. The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare will aggregate the reported data and announce it every Friday, and the first time from May 1 to 5 will be announced on May 8.