It was newly confirmed that a woman in Tokyo who returned from the United Kingdom in the middle of this month was infected with the mutated new coronavirus.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the newly confirmed infection was a woman in her 50s living in Tokyo.
I returned from the UK on the 13th of this month and had a negative test at the quarantine station at the airport, but after that I had symptoms such as low-grade fever and was hospitalized at a medical institution in Tokyo on the 22nd of this month.
As a result of analyzing the gene of the sample, infection with the mutated new coronavirus was confirmed on the 27th.
After returning to Japan, the woman stayed at the accommodation facility without using public transportation, so she had no contact with an unspecified number of people, and no one had close contact with her.
It is the first time that a person who tested negative at the quarantine station was confirmed to be infected with the mutated virus, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said, "We asked women to wait 14 days after entering the country and confirmed their health condition. This is an example of how border measures worked. "
The mutated virus is said to be more infectious than normal viruses, and five men and women who have arrived from the United Kingdom have been confirmed to be infected by an airport quarantine station, and have been in the United Kingdom on the 26th. Infections have been confirmed in men and women in the family in Tokyo.