On the 26th, a Japanese man in his 30s traveled to the UK and his family and was diagnosed with the Covid-19. The man was a pilot and was not quarantined at the airport, nor did the airport inspect him. The family diagnosed as a woman has never been to the UK. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare believes that she was infected by a man from that country.

According to reports, this is the first time this mutated Covid-19 has spread from person to person in Japan.

Japan announced on the 25th that it was the first time that five people in the UK had been infected with the mutated new coronavirus during entry quarantine.