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Confirmed infection of 9 people, for the first time more than 100 years in total 327 people / Iwate
Updated at 19:00 on December 17, 2020
Iwate prefecture and the city of Morioka announced on the 17th that nine new coronavirus infections were confirmed. For the first time, patients older than 100 years were confirmed and the total number of patients in the prefecture was 327.
Recently confirmed infections were found in Morioka City and Takizawa City, as well as in nine men and women aged 40 to 90 years or older who lived in the prefecture. None are asymptomatic or serious. Seven people were confirmed to be infected at Ujuku Onsen Hospital in Shizukuishi-cho, where the group occurred. Of these, five women aged 80 to 90 years or older are hospitalized in Ujuku Onsen Hospital, and the prefecture has revealed that infections of 100 years or more have been confirmed for the first time. Also, a woman in her 80s is a resident of the attached nursing facility. All of these 6 people were confirmed to be infected by the second PCR test. In addition, a woman in her 50s in Takizawa is a family member of a hospital in / out merchant whose infection was announced on the 16th. In the area related to Ujuku Onsen Hospital, it has been confirmed that 87 people, including staff and their families, patients and residents, are infected. The prefecture has sent a national group countermeasures team to this hospital, but due to the spread of the infection, the analysis of the patient’s symptoms will be extended from the initial period.
(Keiichiro Kudo, Director, Office of Medical Policy, Iwate Prefecture)
“(The shipment) was initially heard this week, but it is taking a while, especially the symptoms of hospitalized patients are being analyzed in considerable detail.”
In addition, a man in his 70s living in the prefecture was admitted to the Morioka Red Cross Hospital and was in the same ward as a patient who had already been confirmed to be infected. Since the hospital infection is derived from the doctor of this hospital, it is included in the group related to the restaurant “Nuff du Pape” in the city of Morioka used by the doctor. The number of confirmed infections in this group was 51. In addition, a woman in her 40s in Morioka City was a nurse at a medical institution in Morioka City where the cluster occurred and was also caring for a patient who was confirmed that he was infected. A total of 327 people have been confirmed to be infected in the prefecture.
