Police station Police officers and detained men also infected New coronavirus April 8 23:56

Police officers working at police stations at the Police Department were infected with the new coronavirus, and infections were found in men who had been detained in a detention cell.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the newly infected new coronavirus is a 23-year-old male police officer in the regional section of the Machida Police Station. He had a fever of more than 38 degrees Celsius on the 5th of this month, and received a PCR test at the hospital the next day, which was positive on the 8th.

The counselor works at the Haramachida police box and the Tadao district police box, contacts 10 residents in response to lost items and accidents, and one of the people contacted has a cough symptom. Sex is unknown.

The Metropolitan Police Department dispatched approximately 30 people from the headquarters to maintain 77 police and other colleagues who live in the same dormitory and co-workers, while maintaining the functioning of the police station. .

On the other hand, a man in his 50s who had been detained in a detention cell at Shibuya Police Station was confirmed infected. The fever began to develop on the 2nd of this month, and 4 days later, it was tested for PCR and found to be 8 days positive. I have a high fever and I will be hospitalized.

Four other people were detained in the room where they were detained, and they took measures such as moving them to different rooms, and the facility was disinfected. A total of 17 police officers, who were in charge of detention and interrogations, were on standby at home. The lawyer I met had no health problems at the moment.

At the Metropolitan Police Department, five other police officers are infected, but this is the first case of a detained person.