At a press conference on the 13th, Governor Kuroiwa of Kanagawa Prefecture revealed that the proportion of mutant virus exceeded 30% as a result of the latest monitoring survey of people infected with the new coronavirus.
Governor Kuroiwa has called for thorough measures, saying that "more caution is needed."
Since February, Kanagawa Prefecture has been conducting a monitoring survey to check whether a certain number of infected people are infected with the mutant virus.
Regarding this, Governor Kuroiwa conducted a press conference on the 13th and examined 338 cases, which is 22% of infected people, from the 1st to the 11th of this month, and revealed that 102 cases, which is more than 30% of them, were mutant viruses. I made it.
The proportion of mutant virus in the monitoring survey was more than 5% in February as a whole, and it can be seen that it has increased rapidly in a short period of time.
Furthermore, in Kanagawa Prefecture, the number of newly infected people per week has also increased for the third straight week.
Governor Kuroiwa has indicated that if the number of infected people per day reaches about 200, he will request the government to apply "priority measures such as prevention of spread". We need to be vigilant, and I would like to ask the citizens of the prefecture to take thorough measures again. "