Regarding the infection status of the new coronavirus, an index that indicates the level of medical urgency in each prefecture, as of August 1, the "occupation rate of beds for securing severe cases" based on national standards was In addition to 57% in Tokyo and 56% in Tokyo, the ``use rate of secured hospital beds'' was 85% in Kanagawa Prefecture, and in total, 25 prefectures have reached the ``level at which measures should be strengthened'' indicated by the government's subcommittee. It is more than expected.



In addition, the "number of new positive cases" has exceeded 1 times the previous week in all prefectures except Shimane Prefecture, and the nationwide spread of infections continues.

The government's "New Coronavirus Infectious Disease Control Subcommittee" has summarized the idea of ​​taking measures with an emphasis on the degree of medical urgency.



Since each prefecture differs in how tight medical care is, it is said that the level will be determined by each prefecture.



In response to this, the Cabinet Secretariat has indicated two indicators for judging the level of prefectures: ``burden on medical care provision systems, etc.'' and ``infection status.''



Of these, there are five items in the "burden on the medical care provision system, etc."



In addition, there are five items in the "infection status", such as "positive rate of PCR test", "number of new positive cases per 100,000 people", and "proportion of people whose infection route is unknown".

The Cabinet Secretariat has released data for all 47 prefectures nationwide as of August 1.



Of these, the "occupation rate of secured hospital beds for severe cases" was aggregated based on national standards, and was

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57% in Kyoto Prefecture, ▽


56% in Tokyo

Prefecture .

85% in

Kagoshima

78% in Fukuoka

77% in Wakayama and Okinawa

73% in Shizuoka

67% in Saitama and Kumamoto

64% in Shiga

63% in Hiroshima %

▽Hyogo 61%

▽Osaka 60%

▽Chiba, Niigata, Aichi and Nara 58%

▽Kochi and Saga 57%

▽Aomori and Tochigi 55%

▽Tokyo and 53% in Nagasaki Prefecture

▽ 51% in Miyagi Prefecture and Oita Prefecture, a

total of 25 prefectures, either or both indicators, according to the "level of strengthening measures" indicated by the government's subcommittee Some 50% or more.

In addition, the number of "new positives" compared to last week was 0.85 in Shimane Prefecture, less than 1-fold, but exceeded 1-fold in other prefectures, indicating that the infection continues to spread nationwide.

Detailed data by prefecture can be found on NHK's special website.

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