Regarding the number of people infected with the new coronavirus in Chiba prefecture, the cumulative number of people infected by the 8th has increased by 79, saying that there were omissions in reports from the health center and mistakes that were recorded twice. Announced.
On the 9th, Chiba Prefecture revealed that an error was found as a result of scrutinizing the number of infected people in the prefecture announced from December last year to last month.
Specifically, there were 93 cases in which the work could not keep up with the rapid increase in the number of infected people and reports from the health center were omitted and were not counted, as well as the amount once announced by other local governments and Chiba prefecture. It means that there were 14 cases in which confirmation was insufficient and duplicates were recorded.
As a result, the cumulative number of people increased by 79, and by the 8th, the total number of people announced as newly infected people in the prefecture was 30,437.
Of these, for January, 21 of the daily announcements have been revised.
According to the prefecture, this time, the care for infected people who had a miscounting was properly provided, and all of them have already completed their medical treatment.
In the future, the prefecture will thoroughly implement the procedure by adding items to the checklist of health center operations to confirm whether or not it has been reported to the prefecture.
In Chiba Prefecture, a similar mistake was revealed in June last year, and the Chiba Prefecture Disease Control Division said, "We apologize for the correction again. We will strengthen the confirmation of the information, scrutinize it, and publish it. I want to go. "