THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 26, 2020 at 13:15 JST
Eleven new coronavirus infections were confirmed around Japan, including the first case on the main island of Shikoku involving a passenger from the Diamond Princess cruise ship who had earlier tested negative.
The total number of confirmed infections in Japan was 862 as of 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 25, most of them from the Diamond Princess.
Five of the new cases were in Hokkaido, three in Aichi Prefecture, and one each in Nagano, Tokushima and Kumamoto prefectures.
The new Hokkaido cases--three men in their 20s to 70s and two women in their 20s and 60s--bring the total number of infected people on the northernmost main island to 35.
The woman in her 60s is a friend of a woman in her 70s whose coronavirus infection was announced on Feb. 24. Both women live in Sapporo.
The first coronavirus infection confirmed in Nagano Prefecture was a corporate executive in his 60s who lives in an area under the jurisdiction of the Matsumoto public health center.
According to the prefecture, the executive stayed in Hokkaido between Feb. 14 and 17 and in Tokyo between Feb. 17 and 19. He tested positive on Feb. 25.
The first positive test for the virus on Shikoku came from a woman in her 60s who resides in the town of Aizumi, Tokushima Prefecture, and had disembarked from the Diamond Princess.
When she took the virus test on the cruise ship, the results were negative for the disease.
In Aichi Prefecture in central Japan, the Nagoya city government announced that two women in their 70s and one woman in her 40s were confirmed infected and in stable condition.
The new case in Kumamoto Prefecture on the southern main island of Kyushu was a woman in her 60s. She is the mother of a female nurse in her 20s who was the first person to test positive for the virus in the prefecture.
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