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Miyagi Prefecture and Sendai City announced on the 17th that 107 men and women aged 10 to 80 years were infected with the new coronavirus. This is the first time that the number of infections announced on day 1 exceeds 100. It far exceeded 87 people on January 14 and set a new record. The number of newly infected people was the fourth highest in all of Japan’s prefectures.
The breakdown of new infected people is 75 in Sendai, 12 in Tagajo, 5 in Tomiya, 3 in Higashimatsushima, 2 in Shiogama, Ishinomaki, Rifu and Taiwa, Iwanuma and Osaki. There is a person in the city, Rifu Town, and Zao Town. Currently, 62 patients (57.9%) have unknown transmission routes.
Sendai City announced the name of the karaoke cafe “Broadway” in 4-chome, Yamatomachi, Wakabayashi-ku, where two residents were found to be infected. It is determined that there have been clusters (groups of infected people) in two commercial offices of the commercial services industry of the city, where the number of infected people has increased to 13 and 11, and in the Sendai station of the Land Force Self-defense (Miyagino Neighborhood), where the number of infected people has increased to 8. it did.
“Familiale Tomizawa” senior center (Taihaku district), including already announced patients, machinery and equipment retail business office, Tohoku district police office (Aoba district), equipment construction center in the city of Rifu, child care center in Tomiya city The prefecture and the city announced the type of business and the type of business, as four people were found to be infected in each and three people were infected in a facility in the transport machinery and equipment manufacturing industry in Ohira Village.
There are 427 medical treatments in the prefecture at 3:00 pm. Of these, 60 were hospitalized, representing 25.4% of the 236 beds insured. The cumulative number of infected people is 4,292 (2,754 in Sendai City). Of these, 3,764 were discharged or discharged from medical treatment.
“Strict measures” “A strong message is required” Experts warn
On the 17th, when the number of new coronavirus infections per day surpassed 100 for the first time in Miyagi Prefecture, infectious disease experts warned that “if strict measures are not taken, the infection may continue to spread.”
Professor Shigeru Fujimura (Clinical Infectious Diseases) from Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University said: “There is a risk that the number of infected people will continue to increase, especially in their twenties. Students may have moved from the metropolitan area to the prefecture “.
“It is economically difficult, but if nothing is regulated, the situation will not improve,” he said, and asked the government to take measures, including requesting restaurants to shorten business hours. He also asked that measures in the home be strengthened, such as complete ventilation and disinfection of the bathrooms.
Professor Ken Kosaka (Public Health) from Tohoku University Graduate School explained the infection trend because “there is no large-scale cluster outbreak and the chain of infection continues widely in the region.” He noted that the amount of traffic increased mainly in Sendai City due to university entrance exams and events related to the Great East Japan Earthquake, which may have led to the spread of the infection.
“Some people feel relaxed during the welcome and farewell party season. It is necessary to take concrete measures such as limiting the number of people in stores and events and sending a strong message ”. “Even if we take very strict measures, it will take a week or two for the results to be known. We need to take immediate action,” he said.
