Tokyo, January 10 According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan on the 10th, four passengers entering from Brazil were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, and further analysis found that they were infected with mutant novel coronavirus.
This mutant virus is not exactly the same as the mutant novel coronavirus found in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare said that the above four passengers arrived at Tokyo Haneda Airport by plane on the 2nd and were tested at the airport, and the results were positive.
The analysis of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases of Japan found that in terms of genetic variation, the novel coronavirus they infected with the mutant virus found in the United Kingdom and South Africa is partly the same and different.
At present, researchers are analyzing the infectivity of this mutant COVID-19, the probability that infected people will develop into severe patients, and the effectiveness of existing COVID-19 vaccines to prevent the virus.
According to the statistics of the Japan Broadcasting Association, as of 21:00 on the 10th, there were 6,076 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Japan on that day, with a total of 288,746 confirmed cases; 45 new deaths and a total of 4,067 deaths (the above data do not include the cruise ship Diamond Princess”.
