Newly infected people "Increasing areas after four consecutive holidays" New Corona Expert Meeting October 13, 21:58
A meeting of experts was held to advise the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on measures against the new coronavirus, and evaluated the current infection situation as "the number of new infected people is increasing after the four consecutive holidays last month."
It is necessary to detect and respond to signs that will lead to the spread of infection nationwide at an early stage.
At the meeting, experts analyzed the current status of infection.
According to this, after four consecutive holidays when many people moved for sightseeing, there are areas such as Hokkaido, Saitama, Chiba, and Okinawa where the number of newly infected people is increasing from around the end of last month. We evaluate that it seems that infections at dinner and at work are occurring as social activities become more active.
In addition, the "effective reproduction number", which indicates how many people are infected from one infected person, is about "1.1", which is slightly higher than "1", which is said to be spreading in the whole country. Especially in Hokkaido and the Kanto area, caution is required.
At the expert meeting, as the number of newly infected people in the world exceeds 2 million in a week and the infection continues to spread, traffic to and from foreign countries is resuming, so it is necessary to take appropriate measures in quarantine. It is said that it is necessary to establish a system to respond as soon as possible, as there is a possibility that a place different from the past may trigger the spread of infection, such as clusters occurring in the entertainment districts of local cities and places of communal living. ..
Chairman Takaji Wakita said, "We need to find and respond to signs that may lead to the spread of infection nationwide at an early stage."
Analyzing infection cases in restaurants and coffee shops
At a meeting of experts advising the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare held on the 13th, a team of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases talked about past cases of infection that occurred at "general dinners" such as restaurants and coffee shops instead of drinking parties. , Reported the analysis results.
Of these, in cases where customers and clerk were infected at restaurants, in addition to customers who were sitting at the same distance as the infected person, the clerk who was in charge of serving customers was infected, but they were nearly 2 meters away from the counter. The clerk who was cooking was not infected.
In addition, in the case where an infected mother ate at a restaurant with two children and a child, the child sitting opposite the table was infected.
At this time, the mother used her own spoon to feed her child a side dish, which means that she may have been infected by sharing the spoon.
On the contrary, there were cases where the infection did not spread.
At the cafeteria of the elderly facility, I sat at the same table as the infected person, but when I was sitting diagonally opposite and eating at a distance of about 1 meter and 80 cm, the infection did not spread. did.
It is possible that sitting diagonally across the street prevented the infection.
From the analysis of these cases, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, in addition to general measures such as washing hands and employee health management, as measures to prevent infection at dinner, the same for customers It was recommended that the group also keep physical distance as much as possible, wear masks when not eating, such as ordering food and talking after meals, and do not share chopsticks and spoons.