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Kanagawa prefecture
Kanagawa prefecture announced on the 28th that a man in his 50s in Isehara city, Kanagawa prefecture, who was infected with the new coronavirus, died during home medical treatment. The third person who dies during home medical treatment in the prefecture.
According to the prefecture, a man lives alone. Symptoms like coughing appeared on day 17 and the next day it turned out to be positive. He was considered mild and was receiving medical treatment at home. She confirmed her health status by automatically calling with artificial intelligence (AI) twice a day and calling a public health nurse, and she said her blood oxygen saturation was 95-98%, which was not a problem.
On the morning of the 26th, the answering machine could not be reached due to a system failure in the prefecture. At around 1 p.m., when a relative living apart visited his home because he was unable to contact the man, they found him lying down and confirmed that he was dead. The cause of death was a brain hemorrhage associated with new corona pneumonia. According to the prefectural police autopsy, the estimated time of death is before dawn on the same day.
A prefectural official said the relationship between the inability to make an automated answer call and death “was not directly related.
The prefecture revealed that there were 912 home care workers, including a dead man, who were unable to make a call due to a system failure on the 26th. (Shota Shimura)
