Ibaraki: Newly confirmed four men and women infected Infections in hospitals and nursing homes March 30 23:25
Ibaraki Prefecture announced on April 30 that four new men and women in their 70s and 90s have been infected with the new coronavirus. Of these, three are hospitalized patients in a hospital in Toride City, and the prefecture will investigate further, considering that the possibility of hospital-acquired infection is high.
According to Ibaraki Prefecture, of the newly confirmed cases, a woman in her 80s in Toride City, a man in her 70s in Moriya City, and a woman in her 70s living outside the prefecture, It means that he is an inpatient of "JA Toride General Medical Center".
At this hospital, three inpatients had already been infected, and when they were examined as close contacts, three new infections were confirmed on the 30th.
All three have no symptoms or are mild.
The newly infected 90-year-old woman in Tsukuba City is a resident of a nursing home for a woman in her 40s who has been confirmed infected on Tuesday.
Although the fever has continued since the 28th, the symptoms are mild.
The total number of people confirmed to be infected in Ibaraki Prefecture now totals 20.
"It is highly probable that both hospitals and nursing homes have spread the infection internally, and we would like to investigate further infection routes in the future," said Hiroaki Yoshizoe, Deputy Health and Welfare Department of Ibaraki Prefecture.