New coronavirus 270 severely ill, 8877 discharged from the hospital Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare 0:40 on May 10

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of seriously ill persons who have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus and who are being treated in a ventilator or an intensive care unit are 266 persons infected in Japan by the 9th, There are a total of 270 passengers on the cruise ship, totaling 4 people.

On the other hand, the number of people who were discharged from the hospital due to improvement in symptoms was 8,127, and there were 877 passengers and crew members on the cruise ship, making a total of 8,778 people.

Until now, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare had confirmed and compiled the situation of individual infected persons, but since the work could not catch up, after 9th, it was changed to a method of counting the number of people announced on each website by each prefecture as it is. It was.

As a result, the number of people discharged from the hospital increased by more than 2,000 compared to the summary on the 8th.