The total number of people infected with the new coronavirus in Japan, including infections on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, surpassed 1,000 Wednesday.
The Yamaguchi prefectural government announced on the day that a male company employee in his 40s living in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, was newly confirmed to be infected with the virus.
This is the first COVID-19 case confirmed in the Chugoku region.
The Kyoto City government also revealed that a woman in her 50s living in the city was confirmed to be infected.
These cases raised the total number of infections in Japan to 1,001. The first case was announced on Jan. 16 when a Chinese man in Kanagawa Prefecture was found to be infected with the virus after traveling to Wuhan, China.
According to announcements by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, prefectural governments and other sources, 295 of the people infected are residents of Japan, those who returned from Wuhan aboard planes chartered and dispatched by the Japanese government, or residents of China. The number of infected people who were passengers on the cruise ship was 706.
Twelve people infected with the virus have died.
According to the Yamaguchi prefectural government, the man developed a fever of 37.5 C on Feb. 23 and visited a medical institution in the prefecture on Feb. 25.
He received a virus infection check on March 3, and the result was positive for the new coronavirus. He is currently hospitalized in the prefecture.
The man is a salesperson and had traveled to several areas in the Kyushu region mainly on business trips between mid- to late-February. The prefectural government said he has not traveled overseas recently.
According to the Kyoto government, the woman went to Osaka Kyobashi Live House Arc in Miyakojima Ward, Osaka, on Feb. 15 and 16 together with a woman in her 50s from Kyoto, who was found to be infected on Tuesday.
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