Kirk here with some information that may be of special interest to those of you with small children. The following Kumanichi article says that parents of kids attending pre-school (hoikuen or youchien) are being requested to keep their kids at home if possible.
There’s been quite a lot of news like this about kids not being able to attend school, which obviously complicates things for working parents.
https://kumanichi.com/articles/540760
By the way the number of positives in the prefecture today was 1123 – not a record but still quite high.