New virus canceled at conferences and events at facilities for the elderly February 20 18:40
Moves to cancel meetings and events are also spreading in facilities for the elderly.
Among them, the Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Welfare Facility Council, which is made up of about 1200 facilities, such as nursing homes and day service establishments in Tokyo, has found cases in Tokyo where the transmission route of the new coronavirus is unknown. For this reason, we have decided not to conduct training or meetings for the staff for the time being.
The council had planned about 40 sessions, from large-scale training for about 150 employees to a meeting for about 10 people, over the next month. They stopped everything because it could increase the risk.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, many elderly people have reduced immunity and have chronic diseases, so there is a high risk of infectious diseases becoming severe.Especially when viruses are brought in from outside, especially in facilities where many elderly people spend in groups, This means that the infection may spread one after another.
The council wants to make decisions after April based on the spread of the infection.