Overview
- Toyama City reported that care-facility users in their 70s to 100s experienced diarrhea and vomiting, with one male resident dying as officials continue to examine any causal link to the outbreak.
- Authorities suspect lunches prepared at the facility on February 5 and 9 as the exposure events, with some residents falling ill starting February 6.
- A medical institution alerted the city on February 12, after which officials issued strict warnings and guidance to the facility.
- Nine of the affected residents are reported to be improving, according to the city’s announcement on February 14.
- In a separate case in Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture, 40 people became ill at a nursing home, norovirus was detected in a woman in her 90s, and the prefecture imposed an operational ban on the contracted meal provider Nisshin Medical Foods.