From August to mid-October, Mie Prefecture announced the wrong number of people who were infected with the new coronavirus and were receiving medical treatment at home, up to 2,000 more people a day than they actually were. understood.
The prefecture apologized for not affecting the request for refraining from business to restaurants.
According to Mie Prefecture, the mistakes were made between August 1st and October 15th, among those infected with the new coronavirus, those who are coordinating hospitalization, etc., and those who are being treated at home. It is the number of people who announced as a person who is.
The total number of people who were erroneously announced was 38,865, and on September 3, when the error was the largest, it was actually 1897, but the number of announcements was 3,987, which was 2090.
In Mie Prefecture, among the patient information created by the public health center, the work of reflecting the person whose home medical treatment was canceled in the database was delayed due to the rapid increase in infected people, and due to this mistake, hospitalization adjustment and restaurants were sent. It is explained that there was no effect on the request for self-restraint of business.
Motohiro Nakase, chief of the Infectious Disease Information Project Team of the Mie Medical and Health Department, apologized, "The number of home care recipients is of great interest to the citizens of the prefecture and is an important number that is published daily. I am very sorry."