COVID-19 Updates: Cases in Tsukuba and Ibaraki Prefecture as of 1 April 2020
[Provisional translation]

PCR tests were conducted to 30 persons who had close contact with
people who had been confirmed positive at the seniors home
Arehteru-Tsukuba, and 5 cases are newly found to be positive among
them.
All of the 5 cases (#33, #34, #35, #36, #37) are residents of the
seniors home Arehteru-Tsukuba, and further PCR testing for people who
had close contact is going to be conducted.

Profile of the newly confirmed cases:

Case #33:
- Gender: male
- Age: 90s
- Resident of Tsukuba
- March 31: Fever around 37C

Case #34
- Gender: female
- Age: 90s
- Resident of Tsukuba
- March 31: Fever around 37C

Case #35
- Gender: female
- Age: 80s
- Resident of Sakuragawa-city
- No symptoms

Case #36
- Gender: female
- Age: 80s
- Resident of Tsukuba
- No symptoms

Case #37
- Gender: male
- Age: 90s
- Resident of Tsukuba
- April 1: Fever around 37C

Results of PCR tests for close contacts

- 14 residents of seniors home ... 5 positive and 9 negative
- 16 staffs of seniors home ... 16 negative