Patients with the new coronavirus visit the fever outpatient clinic to obtain a certificate of infection, and it continues to be crowded, making it difficult to get tested. Requested not to ask for a certificate of fever outpatient testing.
In areas where infection is spreading, mainly in urban areas, many patients visit fever outpatient clinics at medical institutions in search of certificates of infection, making it difficult for other patients to receive medical examinations and tests.
For this reason, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is concerned that there is a risk that it will not be possible to adequately deal with elderly people who are at risk of becoming seriously ill. I requested not to ask for the submission of a certificate, etc.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare says that images taken with commercially available test kits can be used as an alternative.
In addition, in Kanagawa and Okinawa prefectures, if a test kit is positive, they are working to issue a certificate if they report it on a dedicated website. is being introduced.
In addition, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is sequentially delivering 24 million test kits to prefectures so that young people who are at low risk of becoming seriously ill can use the test kits, and plans to distribute them free of charge at pharmacies in the future.