New type pneumonia Confirmed infection of three people in re-examination in Japan Confirmed in 23 people in Japan

New type pneumonia Confirmed that three people were re-examined in Japan Confirmed in 23 domestic patients February 23 23:18

A total of three people, including a woman who returned from Wuhan in Hubei Province on a charter aircraft, were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus on April 4. In each case, the initial virus test did not confirm the infection, and retests revealed the infection.

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the new infection was confirmed on the 4th,
日本人 Japanese women in their 50s living in Chiba Prefecture and foreign women in their 30s living in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China,
３A total of three foreign nationals in their 50s living in Hubei Province.

Of these, a Japanese woman in Chiba Prefecture returned to Japan on a charter aircraft prepared by the government and had a fever and cough at 37 ° C for 8 minutes, so she was tested for viruses, but no infection was confirmed at this time. I did.

However, on the following day (February 1), signs of pneumonia were observed, and a retest was performed on April 4, confirming that the virus was transmitted. The woman was hospitalized on the day she returned, and the fever is still ongoing. This is the ninth returnee of the charter aircraft to be confirmed infected.

In addition, a woman in her 30s living in Wuhan was diagnosed with pneumonia on the 31st after arriving in Japan on the 21st of last month, was admitted to a medical institution in Chiba Prefecture, and received a virus test the next day (1st). No infection was confirmed at that time. However, the symptoms did not improve even after 3 days, and a retest was conducted. As a result, the infection was confirmed on 4 days. Women are still hospitalized in medical institutions in Chiba Prefecture.

In addition, a man in his 50s living in Hubei Province, China, came to Japan last month and subsequently developed symptoms of pneumonia, and was screened for virus once on March 26, but the infection was confirmed at this time. And returned to China on the 30th. However, as a result of examining a male sample stored at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases on the 3rd, infection was confirmed on the 4th. The man was the fourth person in the country to be infected, and he was on the same bus tour in Japan last month with a man in his 40s in Wuhan.

Twenty-three people have been infected in Japan.