Fukushima 70-year-old male confirmed infection 14 newborn coronaviruses on April 4 23:39 in the prefecture
Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, announced on April 4 that it has been confirmed that men in their 70s have been infected with the new coronavirus. It was 14 people that the infection was confirmed in the prefecture.
According to Koriyama City, a man in his 70s living in the city had a fever at a medical institution in the city who had been hospitalized the day before for eye surgery on the 2nd of this month, and had difficulty breathing at midnight after being discharged from the hospital. Ambulance transported to another medical institution.
A medical institution consulted the Returnees and Contact Center, and a positive test was found on April 4 due to mild pneumonia symptoms in men. The condition is calm.
Men have not traveled abroad within two weeks of onset and have no known route of transmission.
The city's public health center is conducting close-contact health observations of four families, one family member and three relatives living separately.
Also, before hospitalizing for another eye operation for eye surgery, we are examining the hospital's history of behavior and contact with healthcare professionals, considering that it is likely to have been infected.
In Fukushima prefecture, infection was confirmed on the 4th and a new day, the largest number of infections to date, and 14 cases were confirmed in the prefecture.