It has been one month in eight days since the position of the new coronavirus under the Infectious Diseases Act shifted to "Class 5", but the infection situation nationwide based on "fixed point grasp" has been on a gradual upward trend since April.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has called for "the current level to be relatively low, but in preparation for the spread of infection that is a concern in the summer, I would like you to pay close attention to the future infection situation and take necessary infection control measures depending on the situation."
After the transition of the new coronavirus to Class 5, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has been grasping the epidemic situation by "fixed-point grasp" based on weekly reports from about 5000,1 medical institutions nationwide.
As a result, the average number
of patients per medical institution continued to increase from 1.5 in the week ending May 14 to 1.2
in the week ending May 63 to 5.21
in the week ending May 1.
Looking at the trends together with the infection situation from October last year to December 3 this month, which was retabulated by "fixed point grasp", the peak of the "eighth wave" was 55.5 in December last year, and although it has been on a downward trend since then, it has exceeded the previous week for eight consecutive weeks since April.
In addition, the number of newly hospitalized patients, which is announced as a new indicator of the epidemic situation, at the peak of the "eighth wave" in December last year, the number of newly hospitalized patients exceeded 28,1 in one week, but after the transition to Class 3, the number has remained in the 63,10 to 7,8 range.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has called for "the current level to be relatively low, but I would like you to pay close attention to the future infection situation in preparation for the spread of infection that is a concern in the summer, and take necessary infection control measures depending on the situation."