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Four passengers on January 2. arrived at Tokyo Haneda airport from the Brazilian state of Amazonia. They were isolated at the airport and were diagnosed with COVID-19.
Takajis Wakita, director of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, told Kyodo News that the new strain is different from those that are spread in the UK and South Africa.
So far, the new strain has not been found to be more contagious.
Of the four passengers, the man, who was in his fifties, was taken to hospital for difficulty breathing. At that time, the woman, who was in her 30s, complained of sore throats and headaches, the adolescent had a fever and the adolescent had no symptoms.
Additionally, the Department of Health has identified three more cases of a more contagious strain of coronavirus found in the UK.
On Thursday, the country’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a month-long emergency for a pandemic in Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama.
On Friday, a record 7,711 new infections were reported in Japan and 2,392 in Tokyo, the most in four days.
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