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Confirmation of infection from 6 new people Ofunato has its own infection prevention measures / Iwate
Updated February 16, 2021 18:55
Iwate prefecture announced on Wednesday that six new coronavirus infections were confirmed. In Ofunato, infections are spreading, like clusters that occur in schools, so the city has established its own “special period to prevent the spread of infections.”
The infection was confirmed in three adolescent men and women in Ofunato city, 50-year-old women, 40-year-old men in Rikuzentakata city, and women over 90 in Miyako city. According to Ofunato City, three teenagers are students at Daiichi Municipal High School, and a woman in Ofunato City and a man in Rikuzentakata City are teachers at this school. On the 14th and 15th, the confirmation of the infection of two children attending this school and two family members who live together was announced, and the prefecture acknowledged that there had been a conglomeration in the school. This is the first time that a group has been confirmed in a school in the prefecture. Approximately 360 school officials will be inspected on the 16th and 17th. In response to this, the Ofunato City Board of Education announced that Daiichi High School will be closed until the 1st of next month. Also, so far it has not been confirmed that women over the age of 90 in Miyako City are related to patients. I have been using the long-term care service for 8 days, from the 6th to the 15th of this month, and at least 10 staff members are listed as contacts. Earlier this month, the city of Ofunato and the city of Miyako were experiencing a series of clustered infections, and the prefecture called for caution.
(Iwate Prefectural Medical Policy Office, Keiichiro Kudo)
“It is not a restaurant group, but we are seeing infections in the community and schools, so I think it is better to increase the level of surveillance.”
The total number of confirmed infections in the prefecture was 530.
(Mayor of the city of Ofunato and Kimiaki Toda)
“Looking at the infection situation over the past two days, I decided that I was in a very critical situation.”
Furthermore, Mayor Kimiaki Toda of the city of Ofunato declared this on the night of the 16th and announced that the entire city will be covered from the 16th to the 7th of next month as a “special special period for the prevention of the spread of infections”. The city is calling on citizens to take infection prevention measures such as wearing masks and avoiding the so-called “three crowds”, and will close some public facilities as of the 18th. The museum is closed mainly in public corridors and streets. sports facilities, and it is a policy to prevent the spread of infection in meetings.
