The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has revealed that more than 200 new cases of the mutated coronavirus, which is spreading in the United Kingdom and South Africa, have been confirmed in the country in the week leading up to the 6th.
It has increased about 1.6 times compared to the previous week.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, as a result of extracting some people from newly infected people and analyzing the genes of the samples, a total of 208 people in 22 prefectures in the week up to the 6th were in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil. It was confirmed that he was infected with a spreading mutant virus.
It is 79 people, 61% higher than the number confirmed in the previous week.
90% are mutant viruses that are widespread in the United Kingdom.
By prefecture, the
largest number was 75 in Osaka,
22 in Hokkaido
, 17 in Chiba
, 16 in Hyogo,
11 in Kagawa and Ehime
, 10 in Mie, and
▽ Kanagawa. 8 people,
▽ Gifu 7 people,
▽ Nara 6 people,
▽ Tokyo 5 people,
▽ Aichi, Nagasaki 3 people,
▽ Akita, Saitama, Okayama, Yamaguchi, Tokushima 2 people,
▽ Wakayama, Shimane, Kochi, There is one person each in Fukuoka.
Of these, infection was confirmed for the first time in Akita, Shimane, Yamaguchi, and Nagasaki.
To date, a total of 886 people have been confirmed to be infected in Japan in 38 prefectures.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is strengthening its monitoring system by asking local governments to examine samples of people infected with the new coronavirus as much as possible.
Over 1000 infected people including quarantine
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, a total of 886 people in 38 prefectures have been confirmed to be infected with the mutant virus reported in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil.
Of these,
▽ Hokkaido has 60 people,
▽ Akita has 2 people,
▽ Fukushima has 5 people,
▽ Ibaraki has 1 person,
▽ Tochigi has 2 people,
▽ Gunma has 3 people,
▽ Saitama has 61 people, and
▽ Chiba has 38 people. ,
▽ 23 people in Tokyo
,
▽
42 people in Kanagawa,
▽ 32 people in Niigata,
▽ 1 person in Ishikawa,
▽ 2 people in Fukui
,
▽ 2 people in
Yamanashi,
▽ 1 person in Nagano,
▽ 22 people in Gifu,
▽ 22 in Shizuoka,
5 in Akita,
17 in Mie,
4 in Shiga
, 24 in Kyoto
, 205 in Osaka
, 197 in Hyogo
, 7 in Nara,
▽ in Wakayama 3 people,
▽ 1 person in Shimane,
▽ 12 people in Okayama,
▽ 23 people in Hiroshima,
▽ 2 people in Yamaguchi,
▽ 17 people in Tokushima,
▽ 13 people in Kagawa,
▽ 17 people in Ehime,
▽ 3 people in Kochi ,
▽ 7 people in Fukuoka
,
▽
3 people in Nagasaki,
▽ 1 person in Oita,
▽ 5 people in Kagoshima
,
▽
1 person in
Okinawa.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, these are the number of people confirmed as mutant viruses as a result of genetic analysis, and do not include the number announced by the local government before the genetic analysis was performed.
In addition, quarantine has confirmed the infection of 152 people so far, and the mutant virus found in the Philippines has also been detected.
Combined with the quarantine, a total of 1038 people have been confirmed to be infected with the mutant virus in Japan.