“Inpatient mortality rate 7.5%” analysis results Chief Cabinet Secretary “Focus on research analysis” 13:15, August 7

Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga pays close attention to future research and analysis regarding the announcement of the analysis result that the mortality rate of patients hospitalized in domestic medical institutions with the new coronavirus was 7.5% Showed an idea.

The National Center for Global Health and Medicine analyzed the data of more than 2600 patients who were hospitalized at medical institutions in Japan who were infected with the novel coronavirus, and the death rate of inpatients was 7.5%, exceeding 20% ​​in the United Kingdom and the United States. It is significantly lower.

About this, Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga at a press conference said, ``I knew that there was a report from the National Center for International Health Studies that the death rate of inpatients with new coronavirus infection from March to early last month was 7.5%. I am doing it."

He added, "I would like to pay close attention to future research and analysis of the factors."