New Corona Two patients died in hospital with outbreak of nosocomial infection Kaho Ishikawa May 12, 18:37

Ishikawa Prefecture is experiencing the largest cluster population of infected people in the prefecture. At Futtsuya Hospital in Hokuhoku, two inpatients infected with the new coronavirus died, and two newly infected patients were confirmed to have been infected. Announced. With this, 71 people were infected with the Futatsuya Hospital and 13 of them died.

According to Ishikawa Prefecture, two men in their 80s and 90s who were hospitalized at "Futatsuya Hospital" in Kahoku City died.

In addition, two hospitalized patients, a woman in her 90s and a man in her 70s, were newly confirmed to have infections. Both of them had been negatively tested twice by PCR, but they had a fever. It means that the infection was confirmed after the second inspection.

With this, 71 people were infected and 13 people died at Futatsuya Hospital.

At the "Futatsuya Hospital," all the patients and staff received PCR tests to take measures to prevent the spread of infection, under the guidance of the Cluster Countermeasures Group of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, but new infections have occurred one after another. I will.

For this reason, at the request of the prefecture, the cluster countermeasure group was re-dispatched, and a second survey is being conducted to determine if zoning to partition the hospital is appropriate.

In addition to this, new infections were confirmed in men in office workers in their 40s in Kanazawa, who are male contacts who have been confirmed to have been infected.

With this, the number of confirmed infections in Ishikawa Prefecture will increase by 3 to 283, the number of severely ill people will be reduced by 1 to 5 and the number of people who died will be increased by 2 to 19.