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4 new infection confirmed cluster outbreak in a medical institution / Iwate
Updated at 18:55 December 8, 2020
Iwate prefecture and the city of Morioka announced on the 8th that they had confirmed the infection of four new coronaviruses. The number of confirmed infections has reached 224 for the first time in 3 days. Furthermore, the City of Morioka has indicated that medical institutions that have been confirmed to be infected by multiple patients are recognized as clusters.
Four men and women between the ages of 40 and 70 living in the city of Morioka, Karumecho and the prefecture were recently confirmed to be infected. A woman in her 40s is a member of the family of a man in her 50s who has already been confirmed to be infected. A man in his 70s, who was first confirmed to be infected in Karume-cho, left the prefecture on multi-day trips, but has no history of contact with people who have been confirmed to be infected. The men in their 60s and 70s are hospitalized in a medical institution in the city of Morioka where nosocomial infections are occurring for the treatment of underlying diseases, and they are in the same room as the four people who have already been announced to have infections or similar. I was being treated. A man in his 70s is seriously ill and is currently being transferred to a designated infectious disease medical institution and treated with an artificial respirator. At this medical institution, after a hospitalized patient was confirmed to be infected last month, six hospitalized patients were confirmed to be infected by the announcement on the 5th of this month, and two more were recently confirmed on the 8. .. Since Eight hospitalized patients were found to be infected by a medical institution, the Morioka City Health Center believes that a group = group infected occurred in this medical institution.
(Director, Ryosuke Yano, Morioka City Health Center)
“210, 218, 219, 221, quad room, but all 4 are infected. 6 out of 8 who received treatment and treatment on the 28th of last month. It has been confirmed in. It can be considered as a group caused by this hospital room or treatment “.
In addition, the prefecture sent an organization “Cluster Control Working Group” to this medical institution on the 4th of this month to support in case of an outbreak, such as zoning to divide the infected area into areas and how to handle protective equipment. . I made it clear that I am giving guidance. A total of 224 people have been confirmed to be infected in the prefecture, and the number of seriously ill people has risen from one to four.
