国内感染者、６４６１人増加　死者は５０人増―新型コロナ

　国内で確認された新型コロナウイルス感染者は、１７日午前１０時現在でクルーズ船の乗船者らを含め５万６９２９人となり、前週の週明けより６４６１人増えた。死者は５０人増え、１１１７人となった。１０日が祝日だったため、６日間での集計。
　感染者の内訳は、都道府県別の合計が５万５３４８人。横浜市で停泊中に集団感染が起きたクルーズ船「ダイヤモンド・プリンセス」の乗客乗員が７１２人、長崎市で停泊中に集団感染が起きた「コスタ・アトランチカ」の乗員が１４９人、政府チャーター機での帰国者らが１５人など。
　国内感染者の都道府県別では、東京が最多で１万７７１４人（１６５０人増）。次いで大阪６８４５人（９５３人増）、神奈川３８５４人（５４８人増）などとなっている。（2020/08/17-10:15）

The cumulative number of novel coronavirus cases confirmed in Japan came to 56,929 as of 10 a.m. on Monday (1 a.m. GMT), up by 6,461 from a week before.
   The national death toll from the virus rose by 50 to 1,117.
   The figures were for the past six days, as last week's Monday was a national holiday.
   The cumulative total includes 712 passengers and crew members of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, quarantined off Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, earlier this year, 149 crew members of the Costa Atlantica, another cruise ship, which was hit by a cluster infection while being docked in the southern Japan city of Nagasaki, and 15 people who returned to Japan on government-chartered flights.
   Tokyo had the largest number of cumulative infection cases, at 17,714, up by 1,650, followed by the western prefecture of Osaka, at 6,845 cases, up by 953, and Kanagawa, at 3,854, up by 548.