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A the information is from the Minister of Health of Japan, Norihisa Tamura, which advanced that were detected five cases of the new strain of coronavirus when the passengers went through the control services at two Japanese airports, between 18 and 21 December.
In accordance with Norihisa Tamura, the five infected Are at present in isolation, with only one showing symptoms of the disease
The official explained, at a press conference, that two of the cases appeared in the analyzes carried out on the passengers of Hanedain Tokyo on 21 December, and the other three in Kansai, in Osaka prefecture, on the 18th.
All five passengers tested positive for COVID-19-19 upon arrival in Japan and subsequent tests confirmed that they were carriers of the new strain.
The minister did not elaborate on the identity or nationality of the infected with the new variant of coronavirus, apparently much more contagious than the one that appeared late last year in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Japan has banned foreigners from the UK since Thursday, but that restriction did not. it affects Japanese from that country or foreign residents in Japan.
A Africa do Sul, where it has also been detected the new strain of the virus today announced the same ban.
According to the latest official data, Japan has about 215,000 inhabitants infected to date and with 3,197 deaths from COVID-19-19.
A pandemic of COVID-19-19 caused at least 1,743,187 deaths as a result of more than 79.3 million cases of infection around the world, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected not end of December of 2019, I Wuhan, a city in central China.
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