Infected doctors work in 12 hospitals Symptoms Possibility of mass infection Kumamoto April 12, 19:02
In Kumamoto Prefecture, a 70-year-old man who was confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus on the 11th was a doctor working at a hospital in Hitoyoshi City, and announced that 12 patients, including hospital patients, had symptoms such as fever. The prefecture is examining the possibility that a group of infected people called "clusters" may have occurred.
Governor Kashima of Kumamoto Prefecture held a press conference on the 12th and announced that the 70-year-old man in Higashi-ku, Kumamoto City, who was infected on the 11th, was an orthopedic surgeon working at Kuma Hospital in Hitoyoshi City. A new case of infection in a 70-year-old wife living together was confirmed on Tuesday, and a health center survey found that there were 12 health workers and patients with fever among Kuma Hospital's medical staff. about it.
For this reason, the prefecture is proceeding with the examination, considering that there may have been a group of infected people called "clusters".
The male doctor was on the 6th, 8th, and 9th of this month.
Kuma Hospital is the core hospital in the area that accepts emergency patients, but has stopped accepting new outpatients and hospitalizations since the 12th.
Governor Kashima said, "I would like to ask citizens of the prefecture to continue their self-restraint.