About notification based on the Infectious Disease Law

Based on the Law Concerning Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases (hereafter referred to as the Infectious Diseases Law) Article 12, Paragraph 1 and Article 14, Paragraph 2, a doctor who has diagnosed a specified infectious disease should go to the nearest public health center. It is to be delivered.

Notification standards and notification forms

• Immediately after diagnosis for category 1 to category 4 infections, within 7 days for category 5 infections (immediately for measles, rubella, and invasive meningococcal infections) Please submit an outbreak report to the local public health center.
• For new coronavirus infections, it is recommended to submit using the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's system "HER-SYS (New Coronavirus Infected Person Information Grasp and Management Support System)". (If submitted by HER-SYS, there is no need to fax paper or submit the original.) If you are considering introducing HER-SYS, please contact the department in charge of measures against new coronavirus infectious diseases.

Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare "Information grasp and management support system for new coronavirus infected people (HER-SYS)" (link to an external site) (opens in a separate window)

You can check and download the notification standards and notification forms for each disease, including the new coronavirus, from the following.

Report standard according to disease and report style downloading (Tokyo infectious disease information center) (link to the outside site) (open with the other window)

In addition, tuberculosis is included in the second kind infectious disease from April, 2007.

When tuberculosis is diagnosed (for medical institutions)

When there is a delay in notification

If there is a delay in reporting the notification, you will be required to submit a statement of the reason for the delay. Please submit it together with the notification of occurrence.

Infectious disease outbreak report delay reason book (PDF: 5KB)

change point

Changes from May 1, 2018

Acute flaccid paralysis was added to the category V infectious diseases (all cases)

Changes from January 1, 2019

1. Partial revision of notification criteria and notification form for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
2. Regarding syphilis, partial revision of notification standards and partial revision of Tokyo's own notification form
3. Regarding rubella, partial revision of Tokyo's own notification form
4. Regarding measles, partial revision of Tokyo's own notification form
5. Formulation of Tokyo's own notification form for category 1 to 4 infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis) and invasive meningococcal infections

Changes from January 1, 2020

1. Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, smallpox, South American hemorrhagic fever, plague, Marburg disease, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome, avian influenza (H5N1), avian influenza (H7N9), Zika virus infection, chikungunya fever, dengue fever, Regarding malaria, partial revision of Tokyo's own notification form
2. Regarding invasive meningococcal infection, partial revision of Tokyo's own notification form
3. Partial revision of notification form for chickenpox (limited to those recognized as requiring hospitalization for patients)
4. Regarding rubella, partial revision of Tokyo's own notification form
5. Regarding measles, partial revision of Tokyo's own notification form

Related information

• Request (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare) of report of doctor based on Infectious Disease Law (link to the outside site) (open with the other window)
• Related information (National Institute of Infectious Diseases) of new coronavirus (link to the outside site) (open with the other window)