Two new infections confirmed in Nagano 21 new people in the prefecture New type coronavirus April 9 19:23

Nagano Prefecture has announced that it has been confirmed that two women, a woman in her 70s and a man in her 50s living in the prefecture, are infected with the new coronavirus. There are 21 infected people in the prefecture.

According to Nagano Prefecture, two new cases were confirmed: a woman in her 70s who lives under the jurisdiction of the Matsumoto Public Health Center and a man who is a company employee in her 50s who lives under the jurisdiction of the Iida Public Health Center.

Of these, a woman in her 70s visited a medical institution several times by the 7th after the symptoms of a cough appeared on the 31st of last month, and as a result of examination, the infection was confirmed on the 9th. He was admitted to a designated infectious disease medical institution and has no symptoms at present. The woman told the prefecture that she had not gone outside the prefecture for two weeks before the symptoms began.

To date, four family members living together have been identified as close contacts, of which two have symptoms and the prefecture is to test all four.

On the other hand, the man in his 50s was a father of a man in his 20s who was confirmed infected on the 27th of last month after returning home from Tokyo, and his first test was negative and no symptoms were observed. It was found that the infection was confirmed on the 9th when the test was repeated before the end of the test. Men are hospitalized but have no symptoms.

The prefecture considers that the degree of contact is particularly high, and makes one family member living with a man a close contact person, but this family also has no symptoms.

It is 21 people that infection was confirmed in the prefecture in this, and the prefecture is examining the route of infection and close contacts in detail.

In addition, according to the prefecture, consultations that 75 university students in their twenties in the jurisdiction of the Ina Public Health Center who had been infected on June 6 visited the “au shop Shiojiri Hirooka,” who had been working part-time after the onset, had been consulted by 75 people so far. Is being sent.

The prefecture has confirmed that 8 of them are close contacts because of the time of contact, but there is no symptomatic person.

In addition, two people, a college student's acquaintance and a colleague at the workplace, were also in close contact, and the prefecture decided to test three of them with symptoms.