New virus The first dead person in Japan A woman in Kanagawa and three other people confirmed infection February 23 23:30
A woman in her 80s living in Kanagawa prefecture was infected with the new coronavirus and died on the 13th. This is the first death of a person infected with the new coronavirus in Japan. A male taxi driver, a son-in-law of a woman, has been infected, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is investigating the route of transmission.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, a Japanese woman in her 80s living in Kanagawa Prefecture became ill on last month and was diagnosed with pneumonia at a medical institution on January 1 and was hospitalized.
On the 12th, her condition worsened, she was tested for viruses, and she died on the 13th.
Later, the results of the test revealed that the virus was infected. The exact cause of the woman's death is unknown.
This is the first death of a person infected with the new coronavirus in Japan.
Since the woman had never traveled overseas, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to investigate in detail the route of transmission.
A Japanese man, a son-in-law, and a 70-year-old taxi driver living in Tokyo, was also confirmed infected on the 13th.
The man complained of fever on the 29th of last month, and was examined afterwards. The infection was confirmed on the 13th.
It means that the man has been recuperating at home and has not been working since the onset.
He said he had never stayed in Hubei or Zhejiang provinces in China within 14 days before the onset, and during that time he said that he had never carried foreign customers, so the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare detailed the infection route etc. I'm going to find out.
In addition, it was confirmed that Japanese male doctors in their 50s in Wakayama Prefecture and men in their 20s in Chiba Prefecture were also infected with the new coronavirus.
Among them, a male doctor in his 50s in Wakayama Prefecture was hospitalized on the 10th of this month due to symptoms of pneumonia after fever and malaise on the 31st of last month, and the infection was confirmed on the 13th .
According to Wakayama Prefecture, men are surgeons, and after working on symptoms such as fever, they usually went to the hospital from 3 to 5 this month to consult a hospital, but after 6 days they took a break and stayed at home. It means that he was recuperating.
The hospital where the men work doesn't accept new patients, but says that all patients who are already in the hospital will be tested and stay in the hospital.
A total of 251 people were infected in the country, including 218 on cruise ships, one on quarantine officers, 12 on charter planes, and 20 others.