The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has issued a notice urging facilities for the elderly nationwide to conduct face-to-face visits if the family wishing to visit has been vaccinated.
Many facilities for the elderly and facilities for the disabled limit visits as a countermeasure against the infection of the new coronavirus, but as the number of newly infected people is decreasing, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will hold face-to-face visits on the 24th. Notified facilities nationwide to consider.
The notice first asks that all family members who wish to meet with the user have been vaccinated or have been tested negative.
On top of that, the number of people is kept to a minimum, and people who are not feeling well on the day or who have had symptoms such as fever in the past two weeks will not be visited.
We also ask users and their families to take thorough infection control measures such as wearing masks and disinfecting them during the visit, and to refrain from eating and drinking as much as possible.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said, "We can expect that users will be able to interact with their families and lead to physical and mental health. In areas where the infection situation is calm, we would like to encourage facilities to conduct face-to-face visits as much as possible." is.