New coronavirus Confirmed infection of one tour conductor returning from Europe Saitama March 20, 21:42

Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture, has announced that a woman in her 50s who lives in a city returning from Europe has been infected with the new coronavirus.

According to Koshigaya, the woman in her 50s living in the city was confirmed to be a tour conductor traveling between Spain and France from 9 to 16 this month, with 15 guests participating in the tour. about it.

During the tour, she felt cough and hot from the 13th to the 15th of this month.When she returned to Japan on the 16th, she visited a clinic in Narita Airport and was diagnosed with a cold. .

However, since the fever in the range of 37 to 38 degrees continued, a visit to a returnee / contact clinic was made on the 19th, and examinations revealed that the infection was found on the 20th.

The woman stayed at accommodations around Narita Airport on the 16th and 17th of this month when she returned home, and moved from Narita Airport to Shin-Koshigaya Station of Tobu Railway from Narita Airport by limousine bus departing at 9:55 am on the 18th.

Koshigaya studies in detail potential tour contacts and potential limousine bus passengers.

With this, 42 people were infected with the new coronavirus announced in Saitama Prefecture.