Confirmation of infection of women living in Tokyo Returning to home in Chiba Prefecture February 22 18:34

It was newly found that a woman in her 50s living in Tokyo who had returned home to her parents' home in Chiba was infected with the new coronavirus. Women go to the Sapporo Snow Festival before the onset, and Chiba Prefecture is looking into women's detailed behavior.

According to Chiba Prefecture, the newly confirmed infection was a female employee in her 50s living in Tokyo returning home to her parents' home in the northwestern part of Chiba Prefecture.

The woman had a fever of 38 degrees and breathlessness from 16th of this month, and symptoms of malaise and arthralgia.He returned home by train on the 18th and received a flu test at a medical institution in the prefecture the next day. But was negative.

The patient did not improve, and she was transported by emergency and diagnosed with pneumonia on the 21st.He was hospitalized with a fever of 39 degrees or higher.On the 22nd, tests revealed that a new coronavirus infection was confirmed. That is.

Although she has not traveled abroad recently, she visited Hokkaido on the 11th to 13th of this month before her onset, and on the first day she visited the Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo.

Chiba Prefecture plans to contact Sapporo City and others to investigate women's behavior and to monitor the health of their parents' father and husband living together in their Tokyo home. The woman has not been working since 11th of this month.

In Chiba Prefecture, three new infections were confirmed on the 22nd, bringing the number of infected people in the prefecture to 12 including three returnees from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.