Today, the Japanese Imperial Guard Command announced that a senior officer has been infected with the new Corona virus, confirming that he has not been in contact with the Emperor and the Empress for a long time.
It was reported that the officer, who was in his fifties, did not have much contact with other members of the imperial family who had no symptoms similar to those of the Coronavirus, which causes pneumonia.
On March 31, the officer was transferred from his workplace in Kyoto to the Akasaka neighborhood in the capital Tokyo, where he was in charge of the security of the residence of the imperial couple in the Akasaka Palace in central Tokyo. He arrived at the palace on March 28 and had a fever the next day. For a medical examination on April 9, he had not had a travel abroad record in the past two weeks before symptoms appeared.