5 Test Positive After Returning From Europe
Five Japanese people have tested positive for the new coronavirus after returning from Italy, Spain, and France.
The five were tested at quarantine stations at Haneda Airport in Tokyo or Narita Airport, near the capital, on Friday.
Three of them returned from Spain. They are a man in his 20s who lives in Tokyo, a woman in her 20s from Saitama Prefecture, and a teenage woman from Okinawa. A woman in her 40s from Tokyo came back from France. And a man in his 20s from Kanagawa Prefecture returned from Italy.
The woman from Okinawa was told by a quarantine official at Narita Airport to wait until her test result comes out. But she already went back home by aircraft and bus.
The health ministry asks people tested at quarantine stations to put themselves in self-imposed quarantine without using public transportation until their test results are released.
The five people have already been hospitalized or will be hospitalized.
