"Keiyukai Yoshida Hospital" in Asahikawa City, Hokkaido, where a large-scale cluster of new coronaviruses occurred, summarized in a report the progress of the infection spreading throughout the hospital from the first confirmation of infection in November last year.
Asahikawa City's "Keiyukai Yoshida Hospital", where a large-scale cluster occurred, has resumed outpatient clinics from the 18th of this month, saying that no new infected people have appeared for two weeks. A report summarizing the progress of the above has been posted on the website.
According to this, since November 6, last year, 136 inpatients and 77 staff members such as nurses have been confirmed to be infected, and 38 of them have died.
In addition, after the first infected person appeared on the 6th floor of a 7-story building, it spread among patients and staff on the same floor, and then spread to the entire hospital in about 20 days.
Regarding the cause, many patients needed assistance, and physical contact was unavoidable, and due to the lack of manpower due to infection of staff, the same staff had to take charge of different floors.
In the report, Ryoko Yoshida, Chairman of the Keiyukai, said, "We will continue to use the lessons learned from this lesson as a basis for further research and promote community-based health support activities."
Asahikawa City Public Health Center's director in charge of measures against new coronavirus infections, Go Asari, said in a report, "This is a valuable document that summarizes the progress since the outbreak of the cluster. I would like to make use of this report for cluster measures, etc. "