Ishikawa Prefecture Confirmed two new cases of infection A total of four people were treated at 21:10 on February 24
Ishikawa Prefecture announced on the night of the 24th that it was confirmed that women in their 50s and men in their 60s living in the prefecture were infected with the new coronavirus. It is now four people that infection was confirmed in Ishikawa Prefecture.
Governor Tanimoto of Ishikawa Prefecture held a press conference on the night of the 24th, and announced that two people living in the prefecture were newly infected with the new coronavirus.
One is a woman in her 50s, who is a medical worker at a medical institution where a male prefectural employee in her 50s, who was first infected in Ishikawa Prefecture, consulted. Laboratory tests confirmed the infection on the 24th, and have not shown any noticeable symptoms so far, but will be hospitalized.
The other was a male office worker in her 60s who had a fever and throat pain in the 38 degrees range on 16th of this month, and as a result of examination at the Ishikawa Health and Environment Center, the infection was found on the 24th. According to Ishikawa Prefecture, the man met with a person from China earlier this month, and traveled to France from 10 to 15 this month to talk with a person from China. .
Four people have now been confirmed to be infected in Ishikawa Prefecture, and the prefecture will investigate the places visited by the two people in detail and rush to grasp the densest contacts.