埼玉の３人、変異ウイルス感染　判明男性と同じ職場―新型コロナ

　厚生労働省は２８日、埼玉県の２０～３０代の男女３人から、英国で流行する変異した新型コロナウイルスを検出したと発表した。変異ウイルスの感染確認は同県内では初めて。３人に海外渡航歴などはないが、２５日に変異ウイルス感染が公表された東京都の４０代男性と職場が同じで、この男性から感染した可能性があるという。国内の変異ウイルス感染者は計５６人になった。（2021/01/28-20:59）

Japan's health ministry said Thursday that three residents of Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, have tested positive for a novel coronavirus variant that is spreading in Britain.
   This marked the first variant cases confirmed in Saitama. The three, in their 20s or 30s, have never been overseas while sharing the workplace with a Tokyo man in his 40s whose infection with the British variant was announced on Monday. The man may have infected the three, according to the ministry.
   The cumulative number of coronavirus variant infection cases in Japan rose to 56.
   A public health office found the three as it searched for people who may have had contact with the Tokyo man, and the variant was detected from them through a detailed examination by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, the ministry said.
   The three were hospitalized in Saitama after developing COVID-19 symptoms on Jan. 19-20. None of them is in serious condition. Nine people who have had close contact with the three are now being tested to see if they are infected with the variant.