Confirmation of two new infections in Fukui Request for dispatch of cluster response team March 27 23:17
Fukui Prefecture has announced that it has been newly confirmed that two people, a man in his 50s living in Fukui City and a man in his 50s living in Echizen City, are infected with the new coronavirus. A total of nine people have been infected in Fukui Prefecture.
Two cases of infection were confirmed: a male employee in his 50s living in Fukui City and a male employee in his 50s living in Echizen City.
According to Fukui Prefecture, among them, a man in Echizen City had a high fever of 39 degrees Celsius on 22nd of this month and a general malaise, so he went to a medical institution on the next day on 23rd, received a virus test on 27th and was infected. It has been confirmed.
Fukui Prefecture explains that men have an underlying illness and are in an intensive care unit with symptoms such as coughing and dyspnea.
In addition, it is said that infection was confirmed on 27th in men of Fukui-shi, but symptom is mild so far.
According to Fukui Prefecture, neither of them had a history of staying outside the prefecture for two weeks before the onset, and no contact with patients confirmed in the prefecture has been confirmed so far.
As a result, a total of nine people have been confirmed to be infected in Fukui Prefecture, and Fukui Prefecture requests the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to dispatch a “cluster countermeasures team” to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare because there are a number of infected people in the prefecture with unknown transmission routes. Did.