(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The medical alert level in Tokyo, Japan has been raised to the highest level again after 3 months

  China News Agency, Tokyo, December 22 (Reporter Zhu Chenxi) According to a report from the Japan Broadcasting Association TV station, due to the continued deterioration of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government of Japan raised the medical alert level to the highest level on the 22nd.

This is the first time in three months since mid-September this year that Tokyo has once again raised the alert level to the highest level.

  According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, there were 18,820 new confirmed cases and 18 new deaths in Tokyo that day.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced on the 22nd the monitoring results of the new crown epidemic situation and medical supply status in Tokyo.

Data show that the bed utilization rate in Tokyo was 51.9% on the 21st, and the bed utilization rate has continued to exceed 50% since the 14th.

  According to reports, due to the increasing number of infections among medical staff and the number of emergency patients, medical resources began to be strained. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government raised the medical alert level to the highest of the four levels on the 22nd.

Health experts said that the current number of hospitalized patients continues to be at a high level, and the number of critically ill patients has also increased significantly.

The number of infections in Tokyo has continued to increase for eight consecutive weeks, and experts call for vigilance against a sharp increase in the number of infections in the future.

  Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said at a press conference that day that Tokyo has entered a period of superimposed epidemics of influenza and new coronary pneumonia, calling on the public to actively vaccinate and do daily protection.

  According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, there were 184,375 new confirmed cases in a single day in Japan on the 22nd, with a total of 27,765,782 confirmed cases; 339 new deaths, and a total of 54,365 deaths.

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