Tochigi Prefecture Two new infections confirmed New Coronavirus April 16 21:19

Tochigi Prefecture announced that two men and women in their 50s were newly infected with the new coronavirus. The number of people confirmed to be infected in the prefecture has now reached 42.

According to Tochigi Prefecture, two newly confirmed infections were a woman in her 50s in Nasushiobara City and a man in her 50s in Tochigi City.

Among them, a woman in Nasushiobara City is a daughter who lives with a couple in Nasushiobara City, who had been confirmed to have been infected, and had symptoms of fever from 9th of this month, but as a rich contact person, 11th of this month. The virus test was negative.

However, after that, he had symptoms such as fever, and as a result of another examination on the 16th, an infection was confirmed.

On the 14th, a man in Tochigi was a colleague of a man living in the same Tochigi city that had been confirmed infected on the 14th, and he was confirmed to be infected by this man who worked together at a restaurant. The doctor confirmed that the infection was confirmed on the 16th. Both of them have mild symptoms.

A total of 42 people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus in Tochigi Prefecture.