About new coronavirus infection of toll collection company employees
(Yokohama-Shindo Road Kawakami Tollgate)

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The ETC limited operation of the [E83] Yokohama-Shindo Road Kawakami Toll Gate and [E16] Yokohama Yokosuka Road Konandai Toll Gate due to the effect of the new coronavirus infection was canceled at 12:00 on April 13 (Monday).

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April 2, 2020
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.

It was confirmed that the toll collector (male in his twenties) of our group company, which is performing toll collection operations on Wednesday, April 1, 2019, is "positive" in the infection test for the new coronavirus. it was done. The recipient is a new coronavirus-positive patient announced by Kanagawa Prefecture on April 2 (Thursday), and on March 27 (Friday) the new coronavirus infection announced by our company was confirmed. One of the six people who are estimated to be rich contacts of the toll collectors of the Tohoku area have been waiting at home since Thursday, March 26.

The recipient will be hospitalized at a medical institution.

At the Yokohama Shindo Kawakami Tollgate [Tozuka Ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture], the relevant employee had a business day on which the toll collection work was performed at the toll booth.
In addition, 10 toll collectors, who were estimated to be rich contacts this time and worked on the same day as the concerned collector, have already taken measures to wait at home. The 10 employees had a business day at the Kawakami Tollgate on the Shindo Expressway, where they received the fees at the toll booth.
Please note that we will not close the Kawakami Toll Gate due to this measure.
In the future, NEXCO East Japan will endeavor to prevent the spread of infection by cooperating with surveys at public health centers.

1. Status of the charge collection staff (as of Thursday, April 2)

On Sunday, March 29, she was treated at home after consulting a medical institution, and is currently planning to be admitted to a medical institution according to the instructions of the health center.


[Work status, etc.]
March 19 (Thursday)Vacation

☆ March 20 (Fri) 8: 30-21 (Sat) 9:00

Working (toll booth toll collection) * Wear mask

Fever after returning home after work

March 22 (Sun)Vacation, fever
March 23 (Mon)-24 (Tue)Vacation
☆ March 25 (Wed) 8:30-26 (Thu) 9:00

Working (toll booth toll collection) * Wear mask

March 26 (Thu)-28 (Sat)Waiting at home
March 29 (Sun)

Consult a health center for symptoms of coughing

March 30 (Mon)

Perform PCR tests at medical institutions

April 1 (Wed)

Inspection shows positive

April 2 (Thu)

To be hospitalized at a medical institution

☆ is a business day when there is a possibility of contact with customers (including indirect)

* Added at 17:45 on Thursday, April 2 deficit There was an error in the part, so I fixed it.

2. Close contact

For 10 toll collectors who were estimated to be rich contacts this time and who worked on the same day as the concerned collector, we ordered to wait at home from Wednesday, April 1, when the positive result of the concerned collector was found.
Even for these 10 toll collectors, we were wearing masks at the toll booth and carrying out toll collection until we ordered to wait at home on Wednesday, April 1.

On Friday, March 27, two out of six presumed toll collectors at the Kawakami tollgate that were confirmed to have been infected with the new coronavirus announced by our company, after follow-up, I have returned to work.

3. Other

After Friday, March 20, customers who used the Yokohama-Shindo Road Kawakami Tollgate who had a bad physical condition such as fever, Q & A about the new coronavirus (for the general public) Please refer to the local public health center, etc.

Kawakami Toll Gate location map

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