New Corona Sickness of hospital beds Okinawa and Ishikawa are most serious at 18:29 on September 10
The latest data on the infection status for each prefecture was announced, and in the "condition of bed tightness", Okinawa and Ishikawa prefectures were the same as the previous announcement, and were the most serious "stage 4" in terms of indicators.
On the other hand, “Stage 3” has decreased by 2 to 10 prefectures.
The subcommittee of the government classifies the infection status of the new coronavirus into four stages, of which "stage 3" where there is concern that it will seriously hinder the medical care provision system and preparations for explosive infection spread As for the necessary "Stage 4", specific indicators are shown as numerical values.
On the 10th, the latest data on the infection status in each prefecture was released, and of these, two prefectures, Okinawa and Ishikawa, corresponded to stage 4 in the "condition of hospital beds".
The “maximum available bed utilization rate”
was 60.2% for ▽Okinawa
as of the 1st of this month,
7.8 points lower than on the 25th of last month, and
▽Ishikawa was 2.8 points at 51.6%, but still in Stage 4 Exceeds "50%" of the index.
In addition, the "bed utilization rate" that exceeded the "stage 3" index of "20%" was 10 in Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Fukui, Nagano, Aichi, Osaka, Tokushima, and Fukuoka. It was a prefecture.
While Mie, Shiga, Kyoto, and Hyogo, which were in "Stage 3" last time, were removed, Fukui and Nagano were newly added, and the total number has decreased by two.
In addition, when the "positive rate" of the PCR test is 10% or more on average for one week, it corresponds to stage 3 or 4, but no prefectures corresponded to one week until the 30th of last month.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's expert meeting said, "Inpatients due to the new coronavirus are on a decreasing trend, but in some areas, the level is still high. We should continue to work to secure a medical service system." ..