国内感染者６万８８００人　死者は１２９９人―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、３１日午前１０時現在でクルーズ船の乗船者らを含め６万８８００人となった。死者は９６人増え、１２９９人に上った。
　感染者の内訳は、都道府県別の合計が６万７１４６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２万７１７人。次いで大阪が８４９１人、神奈川４９１２人、福岡４５６８人、愛知４５０３人。（2020/08/31-10:33）

The total number of novel coronavirus infection cases confirmed in Japan came to 68,800 as of 10 a.m. Monday (1 a.m. GMT).
   The country's cumulative death toll linked to the virus grew by 96 from a week earlier to 1,299.
   The cumulative total includes 712 passengers and crew members of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quarantined off Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, 149 crew members of the Costa Atlantica, a cruise ship, which was hit by an outbreak when it was docked in the southwestern city of Nagasaki, and 15 people sent back to Japan on government-chartered flights.
   By prefecture, Tokyo had the largest number of cumulative infection cases, at 20,717, followed by Osaka, at 8,491, Kanagawa, at 4,912, Fukuoka, at 4,568, and Aichi, at 4,503.