3 people including nurses confirmed infection in Kumamoto City 40 people in total New Corona April 19 21:55
Kumamoto-shi announced that it was newly confirmed on the 19th that three people including a nurse woman working at the Kumamoto regional medical center were infected with the new coronavirus. Now 40 people have been confirmed to be infected in Kumamoto prefecture.
According to Kumamoto City, a female nurse in her 30s who works at the Kumamoto Regional Medical Center in Chuo-ku, Kumamoto City, who was newly confirmed to be infected, is a colleague of a female nurse in her 40s who was confirmed infected on the 18th. He had symptoms such as cough and headache, and was tested positive on the afternoon of the 19th.
The female nurse had been working until 17th, but from the 18th she had been waiting at home, so in the city we hurriedly grasp the people who may have been contacted, such as other colleagues and patients. , The inspection is in progress.
In addition, unemployed women in their 70s and unemployed men in their 40s were also infected.
The two are living together with an unemployed man in his 70s who was confirmed infected on the 18th.
Now 40 people have been confirmed to be infected in Kumamoto prefecture.
At the press conference, Mayor Onishi of Kumamoto City said, “We are aware that new infections have been confirmed every day, and we are in a critical situation. With self-restraint to go out, business hours are shortened and business is I would like you to refrain from this. "