351 New Infections in the Kanagawa Prefectural Cluster at Yokohama Neurosurgical Hospital: Tokyo Shimbun TOKYO Web



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Kanagawa Prefectural Office

Kanagawa Prefectural Office

  • Kanagawa Prefectural Office

On the 25th in Kanagawa prefecture, 11 people died and 351 people were infected with the new coronavirus. The number of newly infected people has fallen below 400 since 3. Those who died were between 70 and 100 years old, and 9 of them were hospitalized patients in hospitals where groups (infected population) and residents of facilities for the elderly were concentrated. 181 people have unknown routes of infection. The health authorities of 6 cities, including the prefecture, Yokohama and Kawasaki, have announced.

The prefecture has announced the death of two hospitalized patients at Shonan Oasis Hospital (Ebina City) and a resident of a paid nursing home in Yokohama City, for a total of three people. Clusters occurred at all facilities. There are 36 newly infected people.

The city of Yokohama announced the death of a total of three users of the special nursing home for the elderly and two long-term care health facilities in the city where the clusters occurred. There are 191 newly infected people. Five of them are patients from Shintoshi Neurosurgical Hospital in Yokohama (Aoba Ward). A total of 6 people were infected in the hospital and identified as a group.

The city of Kawasaki has announced the death of three men and women in their 90s and the infection of 15 people. Of the three who died, a man in Kawasaki Ward moved into a paid nursing home in the same ward where the conglomerate occurred. Although asymptomatic, he was tested as a close contact late last month and came back positive. A total of 22 people, including staff, were infected at this facility and the fourth person died. The women of Saiwai Ward and Tama Ward each lived in a paid nursing home, which was a group of more than 30 people. The two were confirmed dead at the medical institution to which they were transferred on the 21st and 23rd of this month.

The city of Chigasaki has announced the death of a woman in her 90s and the infection of 25 people. The woman who died on day 24 was suspected of having a domestic infection and was hospitalized with a positive result on day 7.

There are 24 newly infected people in Yokosuka City. In the kindergarten where 4 people including the staff were known to be infected, 2 children were recently found to be infected and certified as a cluster. In other groups, person number 25 was found in the room on the fifth floor of the Uwamachi Municipal Hospital and the eighth person was found in the room on the sixth floor. Three people have been added to the paid nursing home, bringing the total to eight.

The city of Fujisawa has announced the infection of 32 people. Among them, a nurse in her twenties works at Shonan Fujisawa Tokushukai Hospital where the cluster occurred, and the total number of infected people related to this hospital was 17.

The city of Sagamihara announced the death of a man in his 90s and the infection of 28 people while treating him at home.


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