Chiba Prefecture has announced that it has been confirmed that a man in his 50s living in the prefecture who entered the country from overseas was infected with the Omicron strain, a mutant virus of the new coronavirus.
The man arrived at Haneda Airport from Egypt via Istanbul, Turkey on the 21st of this month, and since there was a person suspected of being infected with the Omicron strain on the same plane, health observation is being carried out as a close contact. I did.
After that, it was confirmed that it was positive, and as a result of genome analysis, it was confirmed that it was infected with the Omicron strain.
After entering the country, the man returned to his home and did not go out, so it is considered unlikely that the prefecture was infected in the city.
This is the third person infected with the Omicron strain confirmed in Chiba prefecture.