Kawasaki 2 dead 3 new infections New coronavirus 17 April 02:02

Kawasaki City has announced that two women in their thirties and nineties who have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus have died, and that three people living in the city have been newly infected.

According to Kawasaki City, the deaths of women in their 30s who were traveling from Europe, where the infection was confirmed on 22nd last month, and women in their 90s, who were confirmed infected 9th of this month. The cause of death is that women in their 30s have severe respiratory failure and women in their 90s have pneumonia.

In addition, three women, a woman in her 20s, a housewife in her 40s, and a woman in her 50s living in Kawasaki Ward, were newly infected in Nakahara Ward. Although she is hospitalized, the two women have mild symptoms. All three do not know the route of transmission.