It was confirmed that four men and women in Kobe city were newly infected with a mutant virus of the new coronavirus, which was confirmed to infect men in Kobe city for the first time in Japan.
Kobe City announced on the 1st of this month that it was confirmed last month that a man in his 50s in the city was infected with the new coronavirus, which is a further mutation of the mutant virus that is spreading in the United Kingdom.
According to the city, after that, when the City Health Science Institute conducted a genome analysis on a total of four men and women in their 20s to 40s in the city who were infected with the new corona, they were infected with the same mutant virus as the first man. It means that I found out that I was doing it.
It is said that three of these four are family members living together, but none of them are the family members or close contacts of the man who was first confirmed to be infected, and have not recently gone abroad. That is.
The confirmed mutant virus has a mutation called "N501Y", which is the same as the mutant virus that spreads in the United Kingdom, and a mutation called "E484Q", which is said to have the potential to weaken the effectiveness of the vaccine.
At the press conference on the 1st of this month, Kobe City explained that the mutant virus was "probably mutated in the body of a man," but Yasunori Kumagai, Deputy Director of the Kobe City Health Bureau, said at the press conference on the 4th. It is more natural to think that it was infected in the city, including the first person, because it was confirmed by the person in Kobe. "
On top of that, he said, "Infection control is the same as the conventional coronavirus, so I want you to be thorough, such as wearing a mask and not making a loud voice."