On the 22nd, it was newly revealed that a group of infected people = clusters had occurred at nursing care facilities in Saitama City and Kawagoe City, and the city is investigating the infection route.
The clusters occurred at the day service office "Yumenoen Rifure Urawa" in Saitama City and "Mizuho no Sato", a health care facility for the elderly in Kawagoe City.
According to Saitama City, since the infection of users in their 80s was confirmed on January 18th at "Yume no Sono Rifure Urawa", the number of people who tested positive was one after another, and the infection was confirmed on the 22nd. By then, there are a total of 10 people, including 9 users and 1 employee.
Karaoke was held on January 14th and 15th at this office, and 7 of the confirmed infected users participated.
Since some people had taken off their masks at karaoke, the city said that they took it seriously, and while investigating the situation at that time in detail, they are also considering guidance for business establishments.
In addition, according to Kawagoe City, a total of 22 people, including 2 staff members and 20 elderly people who have been admitted to the city, were confirmed to be infected by the 22nd at Mizuho no Sato. We are investigating whether or not there is an infection route.
It was announced on the 22nd that 358 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus in Saitama Prefecture, including 19 people confirmed at Mizuho no Sato.
The breakdown is ▽ Saitama Prefecture announced 221 people, ▽ Saitama City 48 people, ▽ Kawaguchi City 35 people, ▽ Kawagoe City 32 people, ▽ Koshigaya City 22 people.
According to the prefecture, at Toda Chuo General Hospital in Toda City, where outbreaks have been confirmed so far, one new employee was confirmed to be infected on the 22nd, bringing the total to 314.
As a result, a total of 22,732 people have been announced as infected in the prefecture.
In addition, Saitama Prefecture and Kawagoe City announced that a total of 11 people were killed after being infected with the new coronavirus, which is the highest number of deaths announced on the 1st.
Three of them are inpatients at "Ikebukuro Hospital" in Kawagoe City, where outbreaks are occurring.
With this, infection was confirmed in the prefecture, and the number of people who died was 304, exceeding 300.