China News Service, October 12 According to a report from the "Central News Agency" on the 11th, a cluster of new crown infections has recently been reported in Japan.
Among them, a troupe practice field in Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, has 62 people including staff who have been diagnosed with the new crown virus.
In addition, Hokkaido reported 4 cluster infections in a single day for the first time on the 10th.
According to reports, a total of 91 actors and staff participated in the training of the Saitama City Theater Company.
Saitama City stated that as of the 10th, 62 of the 91 people who participated in the exercise had been diagnosed. These 62 people lived in Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba Prefectures.
There are no spectators among the known confirmed patients.
The practice range is located on the 4th floor of a building. In order to prevent sound from coming out during practice, the doors and windows are closed tightly, and the ventilation is fixed every hour.
The troupe personnel wear masks when practicing, and disinfect the venue and audio equipment.
The Saitama Prefecture and Saitama City governments are investigating the route of infection and whether there are any close contacts.
The mayor of Saitama Shimizu Yuto said that the health center judged that the theater company had a mass infection.
On the 10th, a vocational school, two restaurants in Sapporo, Hokkaido, and the Ground Self-Defense Force Higashi-Chitose Station in Chitose City were infected.
This is the first time that Hokkaido has reported 4 cluster infections in a single day.
Four new people were diagnosed in this vocational school, and a total of nine people were infected in the same school, all of whom were students of the same discipline.
Both restaurants are located in the Susukino district of Sapporo. The people who are known to be infected include guests and service personnel. The number of people infected at the two restaurants so far is 10 and 7 respectively.
A new female member in her 20s was added to the Ground Self-Defense Force Higashi Chitose Station, and a total of 5 people were diagnosed.
According to the statistics of the Japan Broadcasting Association TV station, as of 20 o'clock on the 11th local time, Japan had 437 new confirmed cases of new crown that day, and a total of 89,491 confirmed cases. In addition to the 712 confirmed cases on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, the total number of confirmed cases exceeded 90,000. Cases, reaching 90203 cases.