China News Service, January 23, reported that on the 22nd local time, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan announced that a girl less than 10 years old in Tokyo had been infected with the mutant new crown virus found in the UK.
The girl has never traveled to the UK and has not been found in contact with anyone who has stayed in the UK.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare stated that “it may be a community infection” and is investigating the path of infection.
On January 7, local time, in Tokyo, Japan, a passerby passed by an empty outdoor restaurant.
According to reports, a girl under the age of 10 in Tokyo was infected with a mutant new crown virus found in the UK.
She is a close contact of a 40-year-old man in Tokyo. The man became ill on January 15 and was diagnosed after an examination. The girl was diagnosed on the 19th after an examination.
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan conducted a genetic analysis of the virus and found that the girl was infected with the mutated new coronavirus discovered in the UK, but was asymptomatic.
Japan’s Kyodo News quoted the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as saying that Japan may have outbreaks of community infections of this mutant virus.
However, so far, Japanese authorities have found no other cases of mutated virus infection in more than 1,400 test samples in Tokyo. The person in charge of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare stated that “do not think the scope of infection is expanding.
In addition, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare also announced that a woman in her 30s who entered Japan from the UK on the 10th was also diagnosed with the mutant virus.
The woman developed symptoms on the 13th and is currently hospitalized.