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Unable to contain the rebound (re-spread of the infection) of the new coronavirus, the Miyagi prefecture and the city of Sendai were forced to reapply to the city’s liquor stores to shorten their business hours at the headquarters meeting. countermeasures on the 21st. The proportion of working generations among those infected is high, and there are concerns about community-acquired infections and crown beds in the Sendai area are filling up. “It is a crisis since the war,” said Kazuhiro Sato, president of the prefecture. There were a number of serious concerns on the part of medical professionals.
As of 21, 1103 people were infected in the prefecture in March. Of these, 60.7% are between 20 and 40 years old, and 74.1% are in the city of Sendai by region. The average daily number of people infected in March was 52.5, much higher than the previous peak of 39.3 in January.
The following table shows the infection status and indicators in the prefecture according to the government subcommittee. The sickbed use rate for all hospitalized patients, to which the prefecture attaches special importance, reached stage 3 (rapid increase) on the 21st. The city of Sendai is said to be almost full.
Eiji Tominaga, director of the Medical Coordination Headquarters, which coordinates hospitalization and medical treatment in the Sendai area, stressed that “now is the biggest crisis.” “Beds are already narrow and the number of seriously ill people is expected to increase in the future,” he said, fearing the impact on medical systems other than Corona.
In March, 34 cases of industries and business types in which several people were infected were announced in the prefecture, of which 27 were in Sendai city. There were 6 restaurants with entertainment and 4 restaurants offering alcoholic beverages. Of the 13 cluster outbreaks (infectious disease population), 11 are in the city.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare has sent links (information liaison officers) since the 17th. The person in charge who investigated the operation of the health center in the city of Sendai said at the meeting of the countermeasures headquarters: ” It is said that there are people in their 20s and 30s who do not clearly tell the history of the infection. It is speculated that restaurants and karaoke at noon are the background of the infection. Is not it? “I supported the request to shorten the hours of work.
According to Softbank subsidiary Agoop, the number of people in Kokubun-cho, Aoba-ku (10-11pm) decreased by 50-60% over the same period of the previous year during the previous request to shorten the hours of work, which began at the end of last year Changes on the platform. After the end of early February, there will be a time when it will drop to the 20% level and there will be a tendency for the number of people to come back.
Mitsuo Kaku, a specially appointed professor at Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, who chairs the prefectural infectious disease control committee, said: “Half of the crowns are transmitted from asymptomatic people and it is the most difficult to control with disease. infectious. I want that. “
