Female patient in her 80s died at Saitama infection confirmation hospital Nosocomial infection?

Saitama female patient in her 80s died at a confirmed infection hospital Nosocomial infection May 1, 20:30

Saitama City announced that a woman in her 80s who had been hospitalized for a fracture in a hospital in the city and was infected with the new coronavirus died on the day.

A woman was hospitalized for a fracture on the 9th of last month at "Aya no Kuni Higashi Omiya Medical Center" in Saitama City and received treatment.

At this hospital, physiotherapists, nurses, and inpatients were confirmed to have been infected, and when this woman was tested for contact with the infected person, it was confirmed as positive on the 27th.

In the city, women are supposed to have nosocomial infections, and we are going to investigate the details of how they died and to proceed with PCR tests for patients admitted to the same ward.

The number of people who have been confirmed to have been infected in Saitama Prefecture has now died to 36.