At Toda Chuo General Hospital in Toda City, Saitama Prefecture, a group of infected people = clusters occurred, and by the 14th, 310 patients and staff were confirmed to be infected, and 31 people were found dead.
According to Saitama Prefecture, at Toda Chuo General Hospital in Toda City, the number of infected people has increased one after another since the infection of staff was confirmed in November last year, and by the 14th, the total number of patients and staff has reached 310.
Of these, 31 inpatients died.
The prefecture is investigating how the infection spread, assuming that a group of infected people = a cluster has occurred.
Toda Chuo General Hospital is a regional core hospital, such as being designated as a disaster base hospital, but it means that new outpatient clinics and emergency outpatient clinics are still suspended.
The prefecture welcomed the national cluster countermeasures team on the 6th of this month and set up a countermeasures headquarters to support the recovery of the medical function of the hospital, but the infection is heading toward convergence, so "early" We would like to protect the local medical system by supporting the recovery of medical functions. "