Nosocomial infection at Kanagawa Odawara City Hospital New coronavirus May 2 19:15
Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, announced at a municipal hospital that eight people including inpatients and nurses had been infected with the new coronavirus so far. doing.
According to the city, it was confirmed at the Odawara City Hospital that the hospitalized patients in their 90s were infected with the new coronavirus on the 30th of last month.
This patient had a fever symptom and was hospitalized in a private room on the 12th of last month due to a suspected infection, but moved to a large room due to a negative PCR test and was discharged 10 days later.
However, because he had a fever after that, he was hospitalized again, and it was confirmed that two other hospitalized patients who were in the same room before discharge were also infected.
Also, 4 nurses and 1 nurse assistant working in the ward with this large room were infected.
Odawara City seems to have spread the infection in the hospital, so it will stop accepting new hospitalizations in this ward, and will urgently take measures such as testing about 50 staff.