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Shizuoka Prefectural Office
On the 23rd, 50 new coronavirus-infected people were confirmed in Shizuoka prefecture. A total of 4,211 people have been confirmed to be infected in the prefecture. Eleven employees were found to test positive at the Kakegawa city office, making it group 66 (infectious disease group) in the prefecture. (Yosuke Itakura, Ayako Itoi)
In the clustered offices in the city of Kakegawa, an employee was affected on the 1st of this month. It was said that there were no close contacts because he was wearing a mask, but the business establishment independently performed a PCR test on another 80 employees who were not subject to administrative inspection. Another 10 people were found to be positive.
The department to which the 11 infected people belong encompasses several departments. A person in charge of the Prefectural Disease Control Division said: “In the cafeteria, the infected people did not use it at the same time. The possibility of droplet infection is not zero, but the main cause is that they knocked on the door from the office I see.
As for the cluster-related cases that have occurred so far, two people have been confirmed to be infected at a support center for people with disabilities in the city of Ito, bringing the total to 14 people.
Of the 32 people announced by the prefecture, 13 are in the eastern part of the prefecture, accounting for 40%, and 11 people are in the western part of the prefecture, including one in Hamamatsu city.
Apart from this, the city of Hamamatsu conducted 25 inspections on the 22nd and confirmed the infection of 3 people. Non-elderly adults living in the city are contacts of infected people who have already tested positive. A male office worker in his 50s living in Nishi Ward and an elderly woman in the city do not know the route of infection.
Shizuoka City announced 15 people, and there was a resident of Shizuoka City in the prefectural announcement.
