Nursing care facility If a person with a new corona infection is detected, even those who do not have rich contact will be inspected at 8:58 on August 8
While new coronavirus clusters are occurring one after another in nursing homes across the country, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare conducts wide-ranging inspections even for users and staff who are not concentrated contacts if one person is infected at the facility. I have summarized the countermeasures such as possible.
Nursing care facilities used by elderly people who are at high risk of becoming seriously infected are continuously infected with the new coronavirus, and according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, clusters have occurred in at least 66 facilities nationwide by the 3rd of this month.
In some cases, users and staff other than concentrated contacts could not be tested, and the infection seemed to have spread, and there was a continuous call for positive tests from facility personnel.
In response, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has put together a countermeasure to prevent the spread of infection in nursing homes.
According to it, if even one infected person is confirmed at the facility, it is said that "the chain of clusters is likely to occur", and even if it is a user or staff who is not a rich contact person, it can widely carry out the inspection ..
In addition, for those who enter the facility, even if there are no symptoms such as fever, it can be tested if the doctor determines it is necessary, and it will prevent clusters by conducting positive tests.
In addition, we are requesting the local governments to establish an inspection system, such as dispatching doctors from the public health center to collect samples so that the users of nursing care facilities can easily get tested. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will notify prefectures of these countermeasures and will strengthen inspections at nursing homes.