Airport quarantine confirms first infected person Male returned from Vietnam Chubu International Airport March 4 20:29
On the 4th, he returned to Vietnam's Chubu International Airport and performed a virus test on a man in his 40s in Mie Prefecture who complained of coughs and other symptoms during quarantine. The infection with the new coronavirus was confirmed. This is the first time an airport quarantine has confirmed an infection.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the infection was confirmed by a man in his 40s in Mie Prefecture, who traveled to Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines from 16th of last month, returned to Cambodia again, and returned home via Vietnam on the 4th. That is.
On April 4, when he arrived at Chubu International Airport, he visited a health counseling room at the Quarantine Station and complained of breathlessness, coughing, and pain in his entire chest.
When a virus test was conducted at the quarantine station, infection with the new coronavirus was confirmed, and he was hospitalized at a medical institution in Aichi Prefecture.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, it is the first time that an infection with the new coronavirus has been confirmed in airport quarantine, and it is thought that men may have been infected overseas based on travel history, and WHO = World Health We are working with agencies and other organizations to find out about close contacts.