自民・高鳥衆院議員が感染　新型コロナ、国会議員で初

　衆院は１８日、自民党の高鳥修一衆院議員が新型コロナウイルスに感染したと発表した。国会議員の感染確認は初めて。高鳥氏は現在入院しているが、軽症という。
　高鳥氏の事務所によると、１８日午前に３７．５度の発熱があったため、病院で抗原検査を受けたところ陽性だった。高鳥氏は首相指名選挙が行われた１６日の衆院本会議に出席。１７日も所属する自民党細田派の例会などに出席したが、コロナ対策で出席者を減らした臨時国会開会式には出ていない。１８日は国会を欠席した。
　高鳥氏の事務所は「ご心配、ご迷惑をお掛けし誠に申し訳ない」とコメント。感染経路や濃厚接触者について保健所などの判断を待っているとしている。（2020/09/18-19:02）

Shuichi Takatori, a House of Representatives member from Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has been infected with the novel coronavirus, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, said Friday.
   Takatori became the first Japanese lawmaker to get the virus. He is now hospitalized, but his symptoms are light.
   Takatori had a fever of 37.5 degrees Celsius on Friday morning and tested positive for the coronavirus in an antigen test, according to his office.
   He attended Wednesday's Lower House plenary meeting, in which a voting to designate the country's new prime minister was held, and took part in a meeting of the LDP faction, to which he belongs, on Thursday. He was absent from Diet business on Friday, when a three-day extraordinary parliamentary session ended.
   His office apologized for causing concern and trouble, and said that it is waiting for a report from a public health center on his infection route and people who had close contact with the lawmaker.