Japan confirms second new virus infection

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TOKYO: Japan has detected a second case of a new virus in the country that has infected hundreds of people in China, the government said on Friday (Jan 24).

A visitor from the central Chinese city of Wuhan has been hospitalis ed in Tokyo after the second pneumonia case caused by the potentially deadly virus was confirmed.

However, after a persistent fever and a sore throat, the man visited the hospital again on Wednesday and was diagnosed with pneumonia this time, the health ministry said. Last week, Japan confirmed the first case of the new virus when a Chinese national who lives in Kangawa prefecture near Tokyo tested positive after visiting Wuhan in early January.

 

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