Fukui 5 newly confirmed infections A total of 118 people in the prefecture New coronavirus April 21 15:53

Fukui Prefecture announced that five new people have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus. All five of them, including colleagues and family members whose infections have been confirmed so far, have confirmed a total of 118 infections in Fukui Prefecture.

New infections were confirmed in Fukui prefecture: unemployed women in their 70s and unemployed men in Fukui city, unemployed men in their 20s in Echizen city, female employees in their 60s and office workers in Sakai city. There are five men in their thirties.

All five people are close contacts such as colleagues and families of people who have been infected in the prefecture so far, among them unemployed women in their 70s and men in their 70s in Fukui city have already confirmed infection. The total number of customers of the shop where a woman in her 70s worked in Fukui City who was confirmed to have been infected was four people.

The prefecture and others continue to observe the health of the four people who were using this store as concentrated contacts.

The total number of confirmed infections in Fukui prefecture is 118. According to the prefecture, 110 of these have already been confirmed the route of infection in the survey so far, and only 8 have no known route of infection.