#14,774
While I was posting my last blog on Thailand's first locally acquired case (in a taxi driver) - @GertvanderHoek at FluTrackers was posting and tweeting the latest report from Japan's MOH, announcing that country's 13th case and the third tour bus guide to be diagnosed with the virus.
This (translated) statement from Thailand's MOH:
DEVELOPMENT OF PATIENT WITH PNEUMONIA RELATED TO NEW CORONAVIRUS (13th EXAMPLE)
Around 14 o'clock today (January 31), the National Institute of Infectious Diseases reported cases of the current new coronavirus-related infectious disease.
The patient, who lives in Kyoto Prefecture, is reported to have been in close contact with a patient with a new coronavirus infection when he visited a medical care provider on January 29.
It was the 13th time that a patient with a new coronavirus-related infection was confirmed in Japan.
We will certainly conduct an active epidemiological survey including understanding of rich contacts.
Overview
(1) Age: 20
(2) Sex: Women
(3) Location: Chiba Prefecture
(4) Symptoms, Progress:
- From around January 20, he had coughed and had a runny nose.
- On January 29, he went to a medical institution because of his running runny nose.
- January 30: Based on the Contact Person Investigation from Nara Prefecture, the health center conducted the investigation.
- January 30: He went to a medical institution to collect samples.
(5) Action history:
- January 16: He traveled from Tokyo to Osaka by plane.
- On January 17-22, he participated in a tour (for Chinese) as a bus guide. The bus driver, who has confirmed a new coronavirus infection, was on the same tour from May 18 to May 22.
- January 22: It was moved by bus from Osaka to Tokyo.
- Two weeks before the onset date (January 20), he did not travel abroad.
- He has no symptoms and is not hospitalized. It means wearing a mask after the tour ends.
