At a hospital in Susaki City, Kochi Prefecture, more than 180 new coronavirus outbreaks have occurred, which is the highest in the prefecture, and at least five elderly people have died so far.
Kochi Prefecture has decided to hurry support by dispatching doctors and nurses specializing in infection control to hospitals.
At Ichiyo Hospital in Susaki City, Kochi Prefecture, a cluster occurred on the 2nd of this month, and the hospital announced the number of infected people on its homepage. Has been confirmed.
According to people familiar with the matter, hospitals are treating infected patients, but the cluster has killed at least five older inpatients and still needs oxygen.
Kochi Prefecture is proceeding with an initiative to dispatch specialized nurses to medical institutions where multiple infected persons have been confirmed, and an infection control team will soon be created by doctors and nurses at this hospital. To help control the spread of the infection.
Ichiyo Hospital says that it is too busy to comment on this.
According to the hospital's homepage, there are psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry, treating mental illness and dementia, and there are 218 inpatient beds.