Regarding the infection status of the new coronavirus, the index that indicates the level of medical urgency in each prefecture is based on the national standards as of August 9. In addition to 65% in Tokyo, the "occupation rate of secured hospital beds" was 98% in Kanagawa Prefecture, and a total of 39 prefectures exceeded the guideline of "the level at which measures should be strengthened" indicated by the government's subcommittee. has become



In addition, the "number of new positive cases" compared to last week has exceeded 1 times in most prefectures, indicating that the nationwide spread of infection 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" 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 announced data for all 47 prefectures nationwide as of the 9th of this month.



Of these, the "occupation rate of secured beds for severe cases" was


▽ 65% in Tokyo, based on national standards, and the



"occupation rate of secured beds" was


▽ 98% in Kanagawa Prefecture


▽ in Shizuoka Prefecture. 83%


▽Aichi 80%


▽Shiga 79%


▽Fukuoka and Kagoshima 77%


▽Wakayama 76%


▽Kumamoto and Okinawa 73%


▽Niigata 72%


▽Saitama 69%


▽67% in Chiba, Osaka and Nara ▽


65% in Hyogo ▽


64% in Ibaraki and Ishikawa ▽


63% in Gifu and Okayama


▽61% in Tochigi and Nagasaki


▽60% in Aomori, Hiroshima and Ehime ▽


59% in Akita and Mie ▽


58% in Yamanashi ▽


57% in Gunma ▽


56% in Tokyo ▽


55% in Nagano and Kochi


▽Miyagi 54% in


prefectures, 53% in Fukushima


, 52% in Yamaguchi and Saga


, 51% in Iwate and Kagawa,


and 50% in Kyoto and Oita, for a


total of 39 prefectures, either or both. The indicator is 50% or more, which is the guideline for "the level at which measures should be strengthened" indicated by the government's subcommittee.



In addition, the number of "new positives" has exceeded 100% in most prefectures compared to last week, indicating that the nationwide spread of infections continues.



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



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