Sunday, February 23, 2020

Tokyo health worker diagnosed with COVID-19 after returning from Indonesia

Publisher : NHK, Japan
Ref : https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20200222/k10012297481000.html
English Translation : Gan Yung Chyan
                                  / KUCINTA SETIA



A senior healthcare facility employee in Tokyo is hospitalized due to severe infection of COVID-19 (covid, in short).

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced on 22 February 2020 that a male employee in his 60s working for a geriatric health facility in Tokyo has been infected with covid.

The man lives in Tokyo and has a cold-like symptom on 12 February. He went to a medical institution, but returned home because he was not diagnosed with pneumonia, and went to work at a geriatric health facility the next day.

After spending 14 days at home, he flew to Indonesia with his family on 15 February 2020.

He has been hospitalized at a medical facility in Tokyo since he returned to Japan on 19 February 2020. His condition is severe.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is conducting a thorough investigation of the route of transmission, as well as any close contacts, including those in nursing homes for men.

As a result, 29 patients in Tokyo have been confirmed infected with covid.

Also Ref: BREAKING : Japanese man tests positive for COVID-19 after Indonesia visit : Report, The Jakarta Post,
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/02/23/breaking-japanese-man-tests-positive-for-covid-19-after-indonesia-visit-report.html?src=mostviewed&pg=/

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