In Kanagawa Prefecture, the number of people who have been infected or suspected to be infected has exceeded 300, and the prefecture has arranged accommodation facilities for waiting while the infection of Omicron strains has been confirmed one after another. I am being chased by.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare considers everyone who has been infected with Omicron strain or who was on the same plane as a suspected infected person to be a close contact, and has requested that they wait at the accommodation facility for 14 days after entering Japan, Kanagawa Prefecture. So, by the 17th, the number of subjects has reached 336.

In particular, from the 16th to the 17th, 242 new people were targeted, so at the medical crisis countermeasures headquarters of the prefecture in charge, staff will arrange accommodation facilities for waiting and send the target people to the facility. I am busy adjusting.



Since the number of target people greatly exceeds the capacity of the two accommodation facilities we have prepared, the prefecture has decided to allow people who can wait at home from the 17th.

Yoshino Yamada, Chief of Disaster Medical Care Division, Kanagawa Prefecture Medical Crisis Countermeasures Headquarters, said, "For close contacts, it is necessary to perform health observations and PCR tests, and if the number increases further, it will be difficult to respond. It is unavoidable to wait at home, but instead. , I would like to follow up by delivering meals and test kits to my home, and going to the health center for tests. "