A heartless word to the city council member whose name was announced due to the new corona infection ... "It is important to be afraid correctly"

One year has passed since the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus in Japan. There are probably many people who feel uneasy about the fact that the convergence is still not foreseeable. So, what kind of symptoms will appear if you are infected with the new coronavirus? What is life like in an isolation facility? We interviewed Kazuhiko Hoshino, 55, a city councilor from Miyazu City, Kyoto Prefecture, who spent 10 days in an isolation facility after being diagnosed with the novel coronavirus last December.

On November 20, Hoshino City Council went out for public affairs in a car with two people who were later found to be infected with the new coronavirus. It was a long trip of about 5 hours round trip.

On the morning of November 30th, the opening day of the Miyazu City Council December regular session, I woke up feeling something wrong with my throat. She said that the humidifier had run out of water, so she thought, "I must have had a sore throat from the air conditioner," and didn't care anymore.

On December 2nd, I had a hoarse voice during a meeting, and people around me worried about me, asking if I was okay. That evening, he received a call from the public health center and was told that he was a close contact of a person infected with the new coronavirus. He also received a phone call from the city and was told, "Since there are positive people in cars, the possibility of infection is quite high."

On the morning of the next day, December 3, I received a PCR test at the public health center. It is said that he used the "drive-through method" to collect samples while riding in a car, and submitted saliva in a test tube. After returning home, he prepares his passbook in case he is hospitalized.

On December 4th, the public health center informed me that it was positive. He thought he was in the middle of the day, but he was also scared because he had collapsed several times from angina pectoris in the past and had a shadow on his lungs for several years.

I was guided to enter a hospital isolation facility about an hour's drive from my home. "I wondered why I had to go to a hospital far away. If I could receive treatment at a local hotel, which has a declining occupancy rate, the local economy would benefit," Hoshino said.