Regarding the state of emergency, which will be due on the 11th of next week, Osaka Prefecture is requesting the government to extend the declaration because the spread of the new coronavirus infection has not stopped and the medical care provision system continues to be in a critical situation. We have entered the final adjustment.
The prefecture will hold a meeting of the countermeasures headquarters on the afternoon of the 6th to formally decide the policy.
The state of emergency issued in the four prefectures of Osaka, Hyogo, Kyoto, and Tokyo is due on the 11th next week.
Under these circumstances, the spread of the new corona infection has not stopped in Osaka, and the medical care provision system is in a critical situation, with a shortage of dedicated beds for critically ill patients.
In light of these circumstances, Osaka Prefecture requested the government to extend the state of emergency, saying that it is necessary to continue to take strong measures such as controlling the flow of people in order to stop the spread of infection in the prefecture and escape from the medical crisis. I entered the final adjustment in the direction of doing.
In connection with this, Governor Yoshimura said on the 4th, "It is difficult to loosen or cancel the current measures," and expressed the recognition that it is difficult to cancel the declaration at present.
The prefecture will hold a meeting of the countermeasures headquarters on the afternoon of the 6th to formally decide the policy.
Bed operation rate of critically ill patients exceeds 100%
The number of beds that can be hospitalized immediately in Osaka Prefecture and the "bed operation rate", which indicates how much they are filled, exceeded 100% for the first time in a disease for 5-day critically ill patients.
As of the 5th, the number of beds for critically ill patients in Osaka Prefecture was 361 beds actually in operation and 372 patients, and the "bed operation rate" exceeded 100% for the first time at 103%. ..
It is said that it exceeded 100% because it suddenly accepted a seriously ill patient in a bed that was not for corona patients.
Apart from this, ▼ one seriously ill patient is accepted at a medical institution in Shiga prefecture, and ▼ 73 people are treated in beds for mild and moderately ill patients at the request of Osaka prefecture. ..
In addition, ▽ beds for mild and moderately ill patients are actually 2105 beds in operation and 1735 patients, and the operation rate is 82.4%.
▽ The rooms of accommodation facilities such as hotels used by asymptomatic people to recuperate are 3475 rooms that are actually in operation and 1752 people who are accommodating, and the operation rate is 50.4%. I will.