In Japan, there has been an upsurge in the number of new neo-crown infections recently, with more than 150,000 diagnosed cases and 2,036 deaths in the country; 2,504 new infections were confirmed on November 26, which exceeded 2,500 again since November 21, and the highest single-day record so far was 2,592 on November 21.
The number of people with severe illness is increasing, and the number of people with severe illness is now 472, a record-breaking number. Japan’s Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, Kenji Tamura, has a sense of crisis about this situation.
At a press conference on the morning of December 1, Mr. Tamura said, “It is necessary to plan for the most serious situation imaginable. Now, the number of seriously ill patients is close to 500, which in itself gives people a great sense of crisis. It is hoped that local governments will soon secure new beds for the newly crowned and the critically ill.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which currently has more than 70 seriously ill patients, asked the hospital on December 1 to increase the number of beds for the seriously ill from the current 150 to 200.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government decided to raise the alert level to the fourth highest of four levels, “the epidemic is expanding,” in light of the intensification of the epidemic since November.
The crisis on the medical scene is deepening due to distressing conditions such as centralized treatment units (ICU), where seriously ill patients are treated, and the number of ICU beds per 100,000 people in Japan is only 5, which is lower than in some developed countries.
According to the “ECMO Network,” which supports the widespread use of artificial cardiopulmonary devices (ECMO) for treating critically ill patients, the number of critically ill patients requiring artificial respirators increased dramatically from 140 on November 1 to 257 on November 28.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of hospital admissions for new coronavirus infections nationwide reached 21,069 as of November 30, and the occupancy rate of beds for new coronavirus infections exceeded 25% in all prefectures, increasing by 6 prefectures from 1 week ago as of November 25, including 15 prefectures including Hokkaido, Tokyo, and Aichi, with Hyogo having the largest number at 68%, followed by Osaka at 55%, Hokkaido at 47%, and Tokyo at 40%.
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