The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced on the 27th that it confirmed that 3,941 people were newly infected with the new coronavirus in Tokyo.


This is an increase of 452 people since Thursday a week ago, and has surpassed the same day of the previous week for the fifth consecutive day.


In addition, the number of severely ill patients using a ventilator or ECMO (artificial heart-lung machine) increased by 2 from the 26th to 17.


Meanwhile, four people who were confirmed to be infected died.

Expert ``Thorough measures to increase the number of new infections over the age of 65''

On the 27th, the metropolitan government held a monitoring meeting to analyze and evaluate the infection status and medical care delivery system, and maintained the third highest level for each of the four alert levels.



At the conference, it was reported that the seven-day average number of new infections was 3,305 as of the 26th, a decrease of more than 90 from the previous week, and experts analyzed that it remained flat.



In addition, by age group, the number of new infections among those aged 65 and over was 2,008 in the week ending on the 24th of this month, an increase for two consecutive weeks.



Regarding this, experts called for thorough infection control, saying, ``Elderly people have a high risk of becoming seriously ill and need to be hospitalized for a long time, so they need to continue to be careful.''



In addition, the number of hospitalized patients was 1,310 as of the 26th, an increase of 210 compared to a week ago.



Experts called for thorough preparation in advance, saying, "It is necessary to prepare a large amount of medicines such as vaccinations and antipyretics," considering the simultaneous epidemic with influenza that is a concern this winter. rice field.

Vaccination “None” “Strong hesitation” About 10%

In a questionnaire survey of Tokyo residents conducted by the Tokyo Infectious Disease Control Center regarding vaccination against the new coronavirus, it was found that about 10% of the people had never been vaccinated and were strongly hesitant to vaccinate. I understand, Governor Koike of Tokyo is calling for cooperation in vaccination.



At the beginning of this month, the Tokyo iCDC = Tokyo Infectious Disease Control Center extracted 1,000 people from their 20s to 70s and conducted a questionnaire survey on the Internet to find out about the awareness of Tokyo residents about infection control of the new corona. On the same day, the results were presented at a monitoring meeting held by the metropolitan government.

According to this , 72.6% of the total answered that they had been



vaccinated three times or more,

▽ 2 times was 12%,

▽ 1 time was 0.3%, and

they had never been vaccinated once. A total of 9.4% of those who strongly hesitated to be vaccinated, saying that they would probably not be vaccinated.

On the other hand, among those who completed the first and second vaccinations, a total of 57.7% answered that they would not be vaccinated for the third time. Because I have doubts about it.”

After the meeting, Governor Koike said, ``It is necessary to provide medical information, such as some people being infected twice. I was.