New type pneumonia Male in their 50s coming to Japan from Hubei Province confirmed infection February 23 23:01
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, a man in his 50s who lived in Hubei Province, China and came to Japan last month had symptoms of pneumonia and was tested for virus infection on the 4th. .
The man was tested for the virus once on the 26th of last month, at which time no infection was confirmed and he returned to China on the 30th.
However, on March 3, a male specimen stored at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases was examined, and infection was confirmed four days later.
The man was on the same bus tour in Japan with a man in his forties in Wuhan, who was the fourth person to be infected in Japan last month on 26th.
Twenty-three people have been infected in Japan.