"Ahead of the bar at night" Koike Metropolitan Governor's interview

`` Away from the bar at night '' Interview with Governor Koike opening remarks Full text March 30 23:38

Regarding the new coronavirus infectious disease, I would like to ask the people of Tokyo again. Thank you.

Since last week, the number of infected people in Tokyo has been increasing further, and now is the critical stage of whether the spread of infection can be suppressed.

As I said the other day, the serious stage of the infection explosion has not changed here, and the situation of infected people in Tokyo so far, recently, in addition to returnees from overseas, the infection route is The feature is that the unknown one is increasing.

The number of new patients today was 13, but the total number of patients so far is now 443.

On the other hand, there are about 40 people who have been recovered and discharged, and even those who are currently in the hospital are praying that they will be healed and discharged as soon as possible.

There are eight people who have died. We sincerely congratulate you.

Regarding this matter, Prof. Nishiura, an expert of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's Response Headquarters Cluster Response Group, reported at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's New Coronavirus Infectious Disease Response Headquarters Meeting, which had been held up to now.

Later, Dr. Nishiura himself would like to report, but according to the report on the spot, of cases where the infection route is unknown, customers who are open from night to early morning, such as bars, nightclubs, taverns, etc. There have been many cases of infection suspected to occur in the food and beverage industry.

These places are said to be at high risk of infection, three dense areas, "poorly-ventilated enclosed space", "a place where many people are crowded", and "close conversation at close distances". However, it is a place where they overlap in a richer form.

In light of today's comments from the cluster task force, I would like to ask the Tokyo residents to refrain from entering or leaving such places. Today is the place.

In particular, for young people, please refrain from going to karaoke, live houses, and restaurants that involve entertainment such as bars and nightclubs for middle-aged people, for the time being, please refrain from doing so That is what you want.

Further support for small and medium-sized businesses and employees, such as accommodations and restaurants affected by various causes of this new coronavirus infection, people who just mentioned, This calls on the State for support and strong support. At the same time, I would also like to consider Tokyo-specific measures in the future.

We have asked the Tokyo residents to avoid these three secrets until April 12, and we went out on weekdays at night and cooperated on this weekend. We ask that you refrain from going out.

The person who has no symptoms even if infected and the person with mild symptoms unconsciously spread the virus, so that each person thinks himself and takes appropriate actions so that this does not happen. I want to.

I would like to ask the people of Tokyo to cooperate again to save lives by avoiding the explosive increase of infected people, so-called overshoot.

Inpatient medical system

We have repeatedly mentioned whether there will be an explosive increase in the number of patients, and this is just a crossroads, and there are many cases of outbreaks in Tokyo in recent days.

I would like to see the next slide, the number of people who have been infected with the new coronavirus and have been hospitalized at a medical institution in Tokyo, and those who have been discharged since then, a graph that tracks the change We are.

The part between these two lines, this part is the number of patients hospitalized at that time.

It is said that patients with a new type of coronavirus infection have a relatively long period of time before the virus disappears from the body even if the symptoms settle, so the period from hospitalization to discharge is about 2 to 3 weeks The degree is the most common example.

If the number of patients increases slowly, the receiving bed can also have a relatively large margin, and if the increase increases rapidly, the receiving system will be tight.

The next slide shows the image of securing the hospitalized medical system in anticipation of a further increase in the number of patients in the future.

In Tokyo, we have been working to secure an inpatient medical system centered on infectious disease designated medical institutions in preparation for the increase in the number of patients. And at present, we have already secured 500 beds.

In preparation for such a situation in which the number of patients has increased significantly in the future, the goal is to secure 4,000 beds throughout the city, with the cooperation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Association. We will continue to build a medical provision system.

In addition, if the number of patients increases rapidly and the medical system becomes tight, there may be cases where patients who have no symptoms or who are relatively mildly ill are asked to seek medical treatment at home or in accommodation. I will come out.
In that case, we will have sufficient consultation with the government and maintain the system so that you can have medical treatment with peace of mind.

Medical care is a common property to be protected by Tokyo residents. We are requesting that we have recently been working to prevent the spread of infection, but this is an important measure to prevent the medical system from going into a critical situation.
We hope that the Tokyo people understand this and continue to cooperate in preventing the spread of infection.

How to report patient outbreaks

Then, it is announcement about the occurrence of patients, but until now, we have notified the situation of each patient and the situation of each patient through a public health center and announced it on the night of that day, but the number of patient occurrences However, the situation has been increasing recently, and as a result, it has taken time to grasp the situation, and as a result, the announcement time has been delayed.

Therefore, from the viewpoint of emphasizing the speed of reporting, in principle, we announce the number of patients on that day at regular times in principle, the number of people who have had close contact with confirmed patients so far, the number of severely ill patients, I would also like to show the total number for each age and gender. This will allow us to provide a quick overview of the day.

The status of individual patients will be shown on the following day as the health center survey progresses. That's all for me.