The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced that four men and women who arrived at Haneda Airport on the 2nd of this month were infected with a mutant virus different from that found in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
This is the first time a domestic quarantine test has confirmed infection with this virus.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, four men and women in their teens to 40s were confirmed to be infected, all of whom were in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
The four people tested positive for the new coronavirus that they received at the quarantine station at Haneda Airport on the 2nd of this month, and as a result of analyzing the gene of the sample at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, it was confirmed that it was the mutant virus this time. ..
Although there are mutations in common with the mutant viruses found in the United Kingdom and South Africa so far, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases is investigating the infectivity because it is a different virus.
This is the first time a domestic quarantine test has confirmed infection with this virus.