The number of people infected with the new coronavirus in January in Tokyo has reached 19,891 so far, exceeding the 19,245 in one month last December, the highest ever, and the cumulative number of infected people has exceeded 80,000.
The 28th monitoring meeting to evaluate the status of infection and the medical care delivery system was held in Tokyo on the 14th, and Governor Koike expressed a sense of crisis by saying, “It’s a very serious situation.
The meeting noted that the increase in the number of positive cases with unknown routes of infection has reached a level where it is felt that there is an explosive expansion of infection, and that it is difficult to provide a medical system for new coronary infections and to balance the usual medical treatment, so the situation is in crisis and the highest alert level will be maintained.
The mutated virus is now spreading in Japan as well. The mutated New Coronavirus, which is said to be highly contagious and spread in the UK, has spread to at least 50 countries and regions, and a total of 34 returnees or close contacts of these people have been confirmed to be infected with the mutated virus in the UK and other places in Japan.
In Japan, not only were people found to be infected with the mutated virus found in South Africa, but also four people who returned from Brazil were confirmed to be infected with another mutated virus. A researcher from the Brazilian National Research Institute, in an interview with Kyodo News on the 13th, believes that the virus came from the northwestern Brazilian state of Amazonas. The state is the departure point of the four people, and the outbreak is now spreading rapidly.
In terms of the percentage of the route of infection, the most infections come from people living together, increasing by 10 percentage points from last week to 57.2%, gatherings to 10.8%, workplaces to 6.9%, various facilities to 6.3%, and food establishments that accompany hospitality to 0.7%.
At present, the epidemic is developing rapidly in Japan, and the Minister of Regeneration, Minoru Nishimura, attended the closing review of the Senate Cabinet Committee on the 14th, and pointed out that the target area is likely to continue to expand when talking about the extension of the emergency declaration to 11 prefectures.
At present, the medical system for the new crown infection is tight, and even if the positive diagnosis is confirmed, there is a sharp increase in the number of people waiting at home without finalizing their admission to hospitals and residential care facilities. In Tokyo, more than 7,000 people have to wait at home because there are no beds available and no extra rooms available for them to enter the sanatorium, and there have been cases of sudden changes in their condition or deterioration of their health, and some have even died at home.
The Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) reports that at least 122 people are known to have died suddenly at home or elsewhere after being diagnosed with the new coronavirus because their condition suddenly deteriorated and the infection was only confirmed after their death. Experts have called on the medical system to find ways to enable patients to be hospitalized as soon as possible in response to changes in symptoms. But medical facilities are tight everywhere, and it is not easy to get hospitalized.
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