Girls in Tokyo are infected with the mutated coronavirus or have a community infection

Source: China News Network

On January 23, a comprehensive report said that on the 22nd local time, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare released news that a girl less than 10 years old in Tokyo was infected with the mutated new coronavirus found in the United Kingdom. The girl had not travelled to the UK and had not been found to have contact with anyone who had stayed in the UK. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said it "may be a community infection" and is investigating its infection path.

On January 7, local time, in Tokyo, Japan, a passerby passed an empty outdoor restaurant.

A girl under the age of 10 in Tokyo has reportedly been infected with a mutated coronavirus found in the UK. She is a close contact of a man in his 40s in Tokyo who became ill on 15 January and was diagnosed after being examined, while the girl was diagnosed on the 19th after examination.

A genetic analysis of the virus conducted by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan found that the girl was infected with a variant of the new coronavirus found in the United Kingdom, but was asymptomatic.

Japan's Kyodo News Agency quoted Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare as saying that Japan may have already erupted in the community infection of this mutated virus.

So far, however, the Japanese authorities have found no other cases of mutated virus infection in more than 1,400 test samples in Tokyo, and the head of the Ministry of Public Welfare said that he "does not believe that the scope of infection is expanding."

In addition, the Ministry of Public Welfare also announced that a woman in her 30s who entered Japan from the United Kingdom on the 10th was also diagnosed with the mutated virus. The woman developed symptoms on the 13th and is currently hospitalized.