At the regular press conference on the 14th, President Ozaki of the Tokyo Medical Association said that from the 13th, wearing a mask as a countermeasure against the new corona was left to the individual's decision, saying, ``It is not a matter of whether you need a mask or not, but you can wear it as needed. It's important to do," he said.
Among them, Chairman Haruo Ozaki said, "It's important to wear masks as needed in hospitals and nursing homes, not whether you need them or not."
Regarding the status of the new coronavirus under the Infectious Diseases Act, which will be moved to ``5'' on May 8, he said, ``The new coronavirus has not disappeared. will be.”
Furthermore, regarding the medical care provision system after the transition to Category 5, he said, "Corona is contagious before symptoms such as fever appear, and I think it may be difficult for some medical institutions to treat it in the same way as influenza. In that case, We would like to prevent patients with fever symptoms from being left unattended by cooperating in the community."