A man in his 70s with new corona infection died 19:07 on June 24th, when confirmed by airport quarantine

This month, a man in his 70s who returned from Brazil and was confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus in an airport quarantine died at the hospital he was hospitalized. According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, it is the first time that a person who has been confirmed to be infected by an airport quarantine has died.

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the man who died was a Japanese man in his 70s living in Kanagawa prefecture, who returned to Haneda Airport from Brazil where he stayed on the 6th of this month and was subjected to a PCR test at the airport quarantine station. Infection with the new coronavirus has been confirmed.

When I returned to Japan, I did not have any symptoms such as fever, but I was hospitalized just in case because I was old and had diabetes, so my symptoms worsened.

From 14th of this month, he was treated with an artificial heart-lung machine called "ECMO", but died on 21st.

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the first person who has been infected in an airport quarantine has died.