Nurse at Tokyo Metropolitan Tama General Medical Center Confirmed infection New corona Apr. 8 22:30
Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced that one nurse working at the Metropolitan Tama General Medical Center has been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
According to the capital, the infection was confirmed by a female nurse in her 40s working at the Tokyo Metropolitan Tama General Medical Center.
Nurses have been providing nursing care for dialysis patients as well as those infected with the new coronavirus who have been hospitalized in the intensive care unit since last month.
On the 4th of this month, he felt a headache while working, and then he developed a fever on the 5th the following day, and a virus test on the 6th revealed a positive result on the 8th. After the fever, you are waiting at home and not working.
At present, 15 patients who have come into contact with this nurse and 30 colleagues have no symptoms such as coughs and fever.
Miyako believes that it is highly probable that the nurses were infected outside of the center, as colleagues who were nursing those infected in the intensive care unit had no symptoms.
Colleagues in contact with infected nurses will be kept at home until this month, during which time the number of patients being taken to the intensive care unit will be limited.
On the other hand, it will continue to accept patients infected with the new coronavirus.
"I'm sorry to worry about the inpatient's family and so on. I was talking.