5 new infections confirmed by Kyoto City doctors and teachers Total 215 people in the prefecture 0:14 on April 16

Kyoto City announced that five people including male doctors and inpatients in their twenties were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.

The number of newly confirmed infections was 5 in total, two men and women in their 20s, two men in their 50s, and one woman in their 60s living in the city.

Among them, a man in his twenties had a malaise and headache on the evening of the 9th of this month when he was a doctor at the “Kyoto Daiichi Red Cross Hospital” in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, and was positive on the 14th. It was

At the Kyoto First Red Cross Hospital, we will stop accepting new outpatients for the time being.

A woman in her 60's is an inpatient at "Mitsubishi Kyoto Hospital" in Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, where a doctor's infection was confirmed on the 4th of this month.

In addition, the woman in her twenties is a teacher who works for a private school in the prefecture and is a contact person related to the exchange meeting held in Idemachi attended by students from Kyoto Sangyo University, who have been confirmed to have mass infections.

The remaining two men in their 50s are contacts with confirmed infections, and the other has no known route of transmission.

All five are mild.

The number of people confirmed to be infected in Kyoto Prefecture reached 215, of which 3 died.

On the other hand, there are 61 people who are discharged from the hospital because their symptoms have improved.