Rumor About Coronavirus Recently in Okinawa, there has been a rumor about the specific locations that people with coronavirus went. The rumor is going around through social media. Daiso Ginowan Branch, one of the locations in the rumor, has been getting a lot of calls from anxious customers since April 5th, the day that the rumor started. The shop received more than 30 calls on the 5th and had to deal with questions such as "When did the person infected with coronavirus come?", "Is that true that a shop staff member was infected too?", and so on. Their phone has been ringing off the hook with more than 10 calls a day about the rumor. According to the local news paper, their sales have decreased 20% compared to last April. In Okinawa, when a person thinks he/she is infected with the virus, the person first needs to call the local health center in his / her area. And if the person tested positive, the health center calls the owner of the places that the person went in past few days (or weeks). But the Daiso has never received any calls from any health centers in Okinawa. Also, they said in the news article that every one of the staff members in the shop take their temperature when they come to work and they always make sure they are in good condition. They also said it was mandatory for them to wear a mask at work. "The shop is safe and you can come with no worries." the shop owner said. The director of the Okinawa Health and Hygiene Department, Toru Itokazu said in the article, "Even if someone infected with the virus visited a place, you can go to the place without being worried too much if the place was disinfected throughly after the person's visitation." He also added, "I recommend sanitizing doorknobs because the virus is likely to cling to them for a long time. You can use alcohol to disinfect. Sanitizing and disinfecting can reduce your risk of infection.".