Analysis by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases has found seven new people in Tokyo who have been confirmed to be infected with the mutant virus that is spreading in India.
This brings the total number of people confirmed to be infected with this virus to 50.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, a genome analysis conducted by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases found seven new people in Tokyo who were confirmed to be infected with the mutant virus spreading in India.
Three of them are a mother in her thirties and two children under the age of ten.
It means that the father in his 40s first developed the disease and then the infection spread in the home.
In addition, two of the seven are married couples in their 40s and 30s, with the husband first developing the disease and the wife being infected at home.
The father and husband who first developed the disease have no history of traveling abroad and the route of infection is unknown.
This brings the total number of people confirmed to be infected with this virus to 50 in Tokyo.