China News Service, August 7 According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), on the afternoon of the 7th local time, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said that two new crown specialist hospitals will be opened in the area to deal with the worsening new crown epidemic.
Data map: Tokyo, Japan under the epidemic.
According to the data released by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government earlier, as of 3 pm on the 7th local time, there were 462 new confirmed cases of new crown in the local area. It was the first time in the past week to add another 400 cases in a single day, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the local area has exceeded 15,000 cases.
According to the report, Yuriko Koike said that two new crown specialist hospitals will be opened, one is Tokyo Hospital affiliated to Tokai University School of Medicine in Shibuya District, and the other is the old Metropolitan Fuchu Medical Center in Fuchu City, Tokyo.
According to Koike, the two hospitals will be put into use in September and October respectively after the necessary modification works, which can provide a total of 200 beds for COVID-19 patients. In addition, there are 10 hospitals in Tokyo that have newly secured 1,000 beds for receiving patients with COVID-19.
According to the Japanese "Asahi Shimbun" report, as of the 6th, a total of 1,476 new crown patients in Tokyo are being hospitalized for treatment.