Confirmation of two cases of infection in Toyama City Hospital patient and nurse Nosocomial infection or April 11, 20:24
Toyama City has announced that two new patients have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus, including a 70-year-old inpatient and a 30-year-old nurse working at Toyama Municipal Hospital. Nurses are working in the same ward as nurses in their 50s who have already been confirmed to be infected, and Toyama Municipal Hospital has expressed the opinion that "nosocomial infection has occurred."
Two new cases were confirmed: a female patient in her 70s admitted to Toyama Municipal Hospital and a female nurse in her 30s working in the hospital.
According to Toyama City, a female patient in their 70s underwent an emergency operation at Toyama Municipal Hospital last month and was hospitalized in a ward where a female nurse in their 50s worked.
He was transferred to another hospital in the city on the 4th of this month, and after that he was hospitalized again at Toyama Municipal Hospital on the 10th because he had symptoms of pneumonia. Was.
In addition, the female nurse in her 30s is a close contact person working in the same ward as the female nurse in her 50s, who was confirmed infected on the 9th.
In this ward, 11 inpatients complain of fever and cough, and two nurses also have fever and are conducting tests.
Toyama Municipal Hospital expressed the opinion that "nosocomial infection has occurred," Takashi Fujimura said. I'll do my best not to do that. "