Kochi Prefecture Newly confirmed infection in the 90s Kesama at a facility for the elderly on March 7 18:30
Kochi Prefecture has announced that one new male in their 90s has been infected with the new coronavirus in the prefecture. The man is staying in the elderly facilities in the prefecture from the 2nd to the 7th in the morning this month, and the prefecture is proceeding with checking for close contacts at the facilities.
Newly infected cases were found in men in their 90s who lived within the jurisdiction of the Central West Health and Welfare Center in Kochi Prefecture.
According to Kochi Prefecture, the man was a relative of a 60-year-old man living in Okayama Prefecture who returned home in Kochi Prefecture on May 5 and was infected, and spent 4 days together at home from last month 28th .
As a result, the virus was tested as a close contact and the infection was confirmed.
He has no symptoms so far, but he has been hospitalized at Kochi Medical Center in Kochi City since the 7th.
The man stopped staying at a facility for elderly people in Kochi prefecture from 2 to 7 mornings of this month, and the facility stopped accepting users, and those who were at the facility had to return to their homes. That is.
Kochi Prefecture is promoting the confirmation of close contacts at facilities.
On the other hand, all relatives in Kochi prefecture who were tested as close contacts for men in their 60s were negative except for those men who were positive this time.
The number of people who have been confirmed to be infected in Kochi Prefecture is now 10 and the total number of people who have been confirmed to be infected in Shikoku is 13 people.