IASR Vol. 41,
No.7 (No. 485) July 2020

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 COVID-19 as of May 2020

• Epidemiologic situation of COVID-19 overseas (as at 4 June 2020)
• Epidemiology during the early stages of COVID-19 outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan
• Cluster-based approach to COVID-19 response in Japan
• COVID-19 epidemic in Osaka Prefecture
• Descriptive study of 4,109 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Tokyo Prefecture (as at 3 June 2020)
• Outbreak and nosocomial infection control of COVID-19 at core hospitals in Tokyo Prefecture
• Experience in responding to a COVID-19 outbreak at a facility for the mentally challenged in Chiba Prefecture
• TMPRSS2-expressing cells and isolation of respiratory viruses
• Correlation between days of illness and real-time PCR Ct values
• Analysis and histopathology of COVID-19 autopsy cases
• Evaluation of the COVID-19 epidemic in Nagoya City: importance of the number of tests, number of positive tests, positivity rate and stratification by test population
• Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage
• Seasonality of human coronavirus (HCoV) infection – Report from the Infectious Agent Surveillance System (2015-2019)
• Pertussis in Toyama Prefecture, 2019
• Characteristics of the re-emergence of COVID-19 in Sapporo City after April 2020
• Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among medical workers at a core hospital in Sapporo City
• Characteristics of a COVID-19 outbreak at a social welfare facility for the elderly in Sapporo City
• COVID-19 outbreak at a medical and nursing care hospital in Osaka Prefecture – Nosocomial transmission, countermeasures and its effects –