Cluster employee in a Philippine pub 4 infection confirmed Saga April 24 18:18
Saga Prefecture announced on the 24th that four Filipino pub employees in Saga City, including all Filipino women in their twenties, were infected with the new coronavirus. In this store, male managers in their 40s have also been confirmed to have been infected, and the prefecture has requested a dispatch of a cluster countermeasures group from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare because of the outbreak of so-called clusters.
Newly confirmed infections were employees of the Philippine pub "Dancing Queen" in Saga City, all of whom were four Filipino women in their 20s living in Saga City.
This Philippine pub is run by a man in his 40s in Saga city who was confirmed to be infected on the 23rd, and the prefecture tested nine pub employees for viruses, and confirmed that four people had been infected by the evening of the 24th. it was done.
According to the prefecture, the male owner of the store visited a nightclub in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, where 10 people were infected, around 14 this month, and I think the prefecture may have been infected there. .
All Filipino women live together in Saga City, but all other employees at the store were confirmed negative. The Philippine pub is closed from 19th of this month.
The prefecture calls on those who have been using this store since the end of last month to feel sick to consult with the nearest public health center as soon as possible.
Governor Yamaguchi confirmed in an emergency press conference that the same outbreak (cluster) as the night club in Takeo City, which had been found to have infected nine people by the 23rd, occurred, and "the risk of community-wide infection cannot be denied. I have a strong sense of crisis in an extremely difficult situation. I would like all citizens of the prefecture to refrain from using shops in the downtown area at night. "
Now 32 people have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus in Saga Prefecture.