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Shizuoka Prefectural Office
On the 8th in Shizuoka prefecture, the deaths of two people infected with the new corona virus and the record number of 92 people were confirmed. The death toll was 48 and the total number of confirmed infections was 3,117.
The prefecture announced the infection of 60 people in cities and towns, except Shizuoka and Hamamatsu. Forty-eight of them, or 80%, live in the eastern part of the prefecture and are affected by the outbreak of infection in the metropolitan area. By city, Numazu city has 12 people, Mishima city has 9 people, Fuji and Fujimiya cities have 5 people each, Izu city has 4 people, Ito, Foot and Gotenba cities have 3 people. each, Atami, the city of Izu no Kuni and Kannan, Shimizu. Each town is one.
Mikio Goto, head of the Prefectural Disease Control Division, said: “I am afraid that the spread of the infection will continue at a rapid pace from the 9th to the end of the three consecutive holidays.”
At noon on the 8th, the total number of people hospitalized in the prefecture was 162, of whom 7 were seriously ill. The bed use rate is 63.4% in the eastern part of the prefecture, 35.2% in the central part, and 26.5% in the western part. At Fuji City Central Hospital, which is the largest group in the prefecture (group of infected people), four more people were infected, bringing the total to 141 people.
Mr. Goto noted: “Infections due to return home and traffic to and from metropolitan areas have peaked. There are more family infections of returnees than usual. The number of people in the prefecture as a whole it has increased considerably. ” Regarding the increase in the number of infected people in the eastern part of the prefecture, he explained: “Because it is adjacent to the metropolitan area, it is oozing. I think I had the opportunity to spread the infection by traveling to work or eating and drinking with relatives and friends”.
About the “metropolitan area type group” that infects the elderly families of infected young people in restaurants with entertainment and karaoke, and spreads further to facilities and hospitals for the elderly, “is happening in the eastern part of the prefecture. It’s a possible situation. ”
