A Japanese police officer is urging you to refrain from going out on the first day of the Corona 19 emergency declaration. yunhap news-A new mutant virus has been discovered in Japan.
According to Reuters and NHK Broadcasting on the 10th (local time), the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan announced that a new mutant virus was found in four people who traveled to Amazonas, Brazil.
Four travelers arrived through Tokyo Haneda Airport on the 2nd. Men in their 40s had respiratory problems, women in their 30s had headaches and sore throat, men in their teens with fever, and women in their teens asymptomatic.
They were all self-quarantined at Haneda Airport, Brazil’s Ministry of Health said.
Takaji Wakita, director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, said, “There is no evidence that the mutant virus found in Brazil is more infectious to date.”
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced that research is ongoing to see if the Corona 19 vaccine is effective against the new mutant virus.
Meanwhile, the number of new corona 19 confirmed in Japan on that day was counted as 6081. Compared to the record of 7,000 people for three consecutive days from the 7th to the 9th, it was slightly reduced, but the highest as of Sunday.
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