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Japan’s Health Minister Norihisa Tamura confirmed on December 25 that at least five people in the country are infected with the new strain of the coronavirus, which would be 70% more transmissible, according to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. on December 19. All the cases identified on Japanese soil are of people who arrived on flights from the United Kingdom between December 18 and 21.
The passengers were examined upon arrival in the country and subsequent analyzes confirmed that it is the new strain of coronavirus. Three cases were identified in Kansai and one in Tokyo, on flights on December 21, and another case was reported in Osaka, the result of a flight that landed on the 18th. Four of these passengers would not present symptoms. Japan stopped receiving flights from the United Kingdom on Thursday (24).
As a result, cases of the “British strain” were reported in eight other countries. In Europe, in addition to England, cases have been identified in Iceland, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Belgium. Outside of Europe, in addition to diagnoses in Japan, four cases of the mutation have been identified in Australia.
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