Six employees and guests of a restaurant in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, are infected with corona Cluster July 27, 19:25

In Shinagawa City, Tokyo, it was confirmed that a total of six employees, including customers and customers of several restaurants in the city, were infected with the new coronavirus, and that a cluster of infected people = clusters occurred in this area. Announced.

Infection was confirmed in a total of 6 employees and customers from 4 restaurants located in Higashi Oi 5-chome, Shinagawa-ku.

According to the ward, one customer who used a store in this area was confirmed to be infected on 17th of this month, and then three shops used by this customer and another shop in the same area, a total of four stores, It means that five people including employees and customers were confirmed to be infected one after another.

There are about 200 restaurants in this area, many of them are small and close to each other, and many customers drop in at more than one shop in one day. This means that we have determined that a cluster = cluster has occurred.

In addition to conducting further investigations on concentrated contacts in the ward, health center staff will visit individual restaurants in this area from the 28th to call for specific measures for alerting and preventing infection.