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On the 18th in Kanagawa prefecture, it was revealed that 5 people were infected with the new corona virus and 957 people were infected, which is the third highest in the past. Of these, 535 have unknown routes of infection. The health authorities of 6 cities, including the prefecture, Yokohama and Kawasaki, announced.
The prefecture has announced the death of three men and women between 70 and 90 years old. Two of them are hospitalized patients at Shonan Oasis Hospital (Ebina City) where a cluster (group of infected people) has occurred. There are 205 newly infected people. One employee got infected in Aiko Hospital (Atsugi City) and two employees got infected in “Maple” Nursing Care Center for the Elderly (Ayase City), and the groups became 106 and 55, respectively. An employee was infected in a social welfare facility in Ayase city, and the total number of infected people became five, which was recognized as a group.
The city of Yokohama announced a record number of 542 people. Four people were found at Genkikai Yokohama Hospital (Midori Ward) and 10 people at Saiseikai Yokohama City South Hospital (Konan Ward), and the groups were 98 and 20 respectively.
The City of Kawasaki announced that a man in his 70s in Yuki Ward died of pneumonia. The man had symptoms of a cough and a sore throat on December 20 and tested positive on December 28. The death was confirmed on the 17th of this month at the city hospital where he was admitted. It also announced the infection of 39 men and women in their teens and 80s. A new positive result was found for a male resident in his 80s in a paid nursing home in Ko-ku, which became a group, and the total number of infected people in the facility was 13.
The city of Sagamihara announced the death of a woman over 100 years old and the infection of 61 people. The woman who died was a resident of a nursing home in the Minami district, where the conglomerate occurred, and was hospitalized late last year when an infection was discovered.
The city of Fujisawa has announced a record number of 49 infections. Two of them, including nurses in their twenties, work at Shonan Fujisawa Tokushukai Hospital, where the cluster occurred, and the total number of related infected people was 12.
The city of Kayagasaki has announced the infection of 41 people. Kangawa city council, a woman in her 50s, is believed to be a domestic infection, and close contacts in other city councils have not been confirmed.
The city of Yokosuka has announced the infection of 20 people. In the fifth floor ward of the Uwamachi Municipal Hospital, where a group of 7 hospitalized patients and staff are located, a new infection was found between a nurse in their 30s and two women in their 80s who are hospitalized.