Infection with the mutated new coronavirus "Delta strain" identified in India may be spreading rapidly.
The number of people whose infection with the virus with the same mutation was confirmed by the PCR test of the local government reached about 1,900 people in Japan in the week until the 19th, and it is welfare that the number has increased 1.8 times from the previous week. I found it in the summary of the Ministry of Labor.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the local government conducted a PCR test on some of the infected people with the new coronavirus, and as a result, a total of 1899 people in Japan in the week up to 19th were confirmed to be delta strains of the mutant virus confirmed in India. It turned out that he was infected with a virus with the same "L452R" mutation.
The number has skyrocketed to 1.8 times the number confirmed in the previous week, and most are believed to be infected with Delta strains.
In addition, as a result of genetic analysis of samples of some new coronavirus-infected persons by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, 145 people were confirmed to be infected with the Delta strain in Japan in the week leading up to the 19th. We exceeded the number confirmed in the week by 12 people.
By prefecture, Chiba prefecture had the largest number of 31 people, followed by Tokyo with 25 people, Kanagawa prefecture with 19 people, Shizuoka prefecture with 15 people, Saitama prefecture with 11 people, etc., and the increase is remarkable in the metropolitan area. I will.