Cluster outbreak hospital 4 new infection confirmed to 64 people involved Ishikawa May 7 18:30
Ishikawa Prefecture announced that four people have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus at "Futatsuya Hospital" in Kahoku City, where a group of infected people called cluster due to nosocomial infection has occurred. With this, 64 people were infected with the "Futatsuya Hospital", and a total of 275 people were infected in the prefecture.
According to Ishikawa Prefecture, it was confirmed that the infections were all related to "Futatsuya Hospital" in Kahoku City, a man in his 40s, a woman in his 90s who was an inpatient, and a family member's age, There are a total of 4 patients whose sex cannot be determined.
All four of them were tested by PCR and were once negative, but because they had a fever, they were tested again and the infection was confirmed. The symptoms are mild in both cases.
This has infected a total of 64 people, including 19 Futatsuya Hospital staff and staff, 5 cohabitants, and 40 inpatients, of which 10 inpatients have died.
At the hospital, we are instructed by the “Cluster Countermeasures Group” of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and are taking measures to prevent the spread of nosocomial infections, but Ishikawa believes that it is possible that an infected person may have developed the disease before that.
Now 275 people have been confirmed infected in Ishikawa prefecture.