Two new infections confirmed in Wakayama Close contact with a medical practitioner April 6 17:32
Wakayama City has announced that it has been newly confirmed that two people, a woman in her 60s and a man in her 40s, living in the city are infected with the new coronavirus. According to Wakayama City, the two are close contacts of a 70-year-old practitioner who was infected for four days.
The infection was confirmed in women in their 60s and men in their 40s living in Wakayama City.
The two were close contacts of a 70-year-old male physician who opened a hospital “Nakaya Internal Medicine and Cardiology” in Matsue Nishi, Wakayama City, where infection was confirmed on the 4th, and the Wakayama Health Center conducted a virus test on the 5th. , In both cases, infection was confirmed.
Among them, the man had been working for a company in Nara prefecture until 25th of last month, but complained of fever on 29th of last month and said he had consulted a medical institution in Wakayama city.
According to the city, both of them now have no symptoms such as fever and pneumonia.
The Wakayama City Public Health Center is planning to conduct a virus test on patients and nurses who visit hospitals on the 2nd of this month, when a male doctor complains of fever and closes in the afternoon.
In Wakayama Prefecture, 26 people were infected, including one who died.