A man in his 70s in Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, who was confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus, died at home without being able to contact the local agency of the Kanagawa Prefecture Health Center, which received a report from a medical institution. I found that.
The prefecture says that the work was so tight that it could not be contacted.
According to Kanagawa Prefecture, the person who died was a man in his 70s living alone in Yamato City, who was injured and was taken to a medical institution for an antigen test and was confirmed to be infected on the 10th of this month. It means that the medical institution reported the infection to the "Atsugi Health and Welfare Office Yamato Center", which is a branch office of the prefecture's health center.
In Kanagawa Prefecture, we check the health status of infected people by phone, but the center first called a man on the 13th of this month, two days after being contacted by a medical institution.
However, the man did not answer the phone and remained unable to contact him, so when he visited his home with the police on the 15th, he was found dead.
The prefecture explained that the center's operations were strained due to the spread of the infection and it was not possible to contact the center, and in the case where the center received a notification from a medical institution after the 10th of this month but the interview survey was not completed on the 16th. At that point, there are about 200 cases.
In response to this, Kanagawa Prefecture commented, "We would like to speed up the work by narrowing down the survey items so that we can preferentially listen to patients with high risk such as the elderly."