New virus Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare increases cluster response team February 29 4:44
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has increased the number of on-site analysis groups in Hokkaido, where the `` Declaration of Emergency '' has been issued due to the spread of the new coronavirus, which may spread the outbreak of the population. We are.
In Hokkaido, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare dispatched three researchers from the countermeasure team to Hokkaido on May 25 because there was a suspected outbreak of a so-called "cluster" in Hokkaido.
In the future, we have increased the number of response teams that conduct on-site analysis to seven, as there is a risk that the infection will spread and create another population.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has a policy to consider further increasing the number of researchers in the countermeasures group to conduct on-site investigations, based on requests from Hokkaido and the status of the spread of infection.