New type pneumonia Kanagawa prefecture is the first person to die in Japan, consultation status survey February 14 12:33
On the 13th of this month, a woman in her 80s living in Kanagawa Prefecture died for the first time in Japan among people infected with the new coronavirus. The prefecture dispatched staff to investigate whether medical workers and other patients had close contacts, because women had consulted and hospitalized at three medical institutions without confirming infection. You.
According to Kanagawa Prefecture, a woman in her 80s living in the prefecture who died on the 13th, infected with the new coronavirus, began feeling malaise from last month on 22nd, consulted the first medical institution on 28th, and on 1st of this month He was diagnosed with pneumonia and was hospitalized at another medical institution. On the 6th, his respiratory condition deteriorated and he was transferred to another medical institution.
Initially, normal pneumonia was suspected because the woman had never traveled abroad, virus tests were not conducted until the day before death, and infection was confirmed only after the woman died on the 13th That is.
In the prefecture, while confirming the course of action from feeling the symptoms to hospitalization last month on the 22nd, the medical consultation and hospitalization with women at three medical institutions led to women engaged in medical care. We are dispatching staff to medical institutions to check with the government to check the situation of the elderly, whether the room where the woman was hospitalized was a private room, and the status of contact with other patients.