8 new cases reported (Tokyo, Japan) [14 total]

[Jonathan Fillion]

Quick rundown (Translation in really poor)

• New years party of taxi company infected 7
• Boat party infected 4

Source known case is a taxi driver whose mother-in-law died of COVID-19 (80 years old) 

A big total of 14 cases in Tokyo.

 

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20200215/k10012287191000.html

Tokyo revealed that eight people living in Tokyo were newly infected with the new coronavirus. Of these, seven were at the venue for the New Year's party, where a private taxi driver who was confirmed infected on the 13th attended, and the city is examining for any other infected people.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government held a press conference on the 15th, revealing that eight people, both men and women in their 40s and 80s, living in Tokyo, were newly infected with the new coronavirus.

Six of these were men who were driving a private taxi living in Tokyo, where the infection was confirmed on the 13th, and four of their colleagues who participated in a New Year's party on a houseboat attended on the 18th of last month. That means two other driver's families. One is an employee of a houseboat.

A taxi driver who was confirmed infected on the 13th revealed that his mother-in-law, a woman in her 80s living in Kanagawa prefecture, died on the 13th and was infected with the new coronavirus, On 14th, two men, a houseboat employee and a female employee of a taxi union branch, were confirmed infected.

Of the eight people newly infected on the 15th, the remaining one is a male employee of a 40-year-old office worker who lives in Tokyo. I went to a medical institution because of fever.

The man traveled to Aichi Prefecture on a Shinkansen on the 10th of this month, and since his symptoms did not improve, he was admitted to a hospital in Tokyo from 12th of this month and is now in severe condition.

With this, 14 people have been confirmed to be infected in Tokyo, and the city is examining whether there is any other person infected.

A male employee in his 40s living in Tokyo, who was newly infected with a new coronavirus on March 15, consulted a medical institution because of a cough on February 2 and a fever on March 5.

He said he was wearing a mask after the onset, but he traveled to Aichi Prefecture on a bullet train on 10th of this month. Since then, she has been hospitalized since this month because her symptoms did not improve, and now she is severely ill.

Before the symptoms appeared, he was talking about the idea that he might have met a Chinese person.