【Text/Observer Network Ju Feng】
Kanagawa Prefecture, next to Tokyo, Japan, decided not to publish the number of tests and the positive rate from February 8 after the test positivity rate exceeded 80%.
Due to the surge in confirmed cases, Kanagawa Prefecture and Tokyo Prefecture have gradually adopted gradual and simplified medical procedures. In the case of someone in the family who is recuperating at home, if the close family members also have symptoms, they can not be tested and clinically judged positive by the doctor. "In the case of test kits running out, there is some reasonableness," the county doctor said.
According to statistics released by the New Crown Infection Countermeasure Center of the Kanagawa Prefectural Agency, on February 8, there were 8,810 new cases of covid-19 infection in Kanagawa Prefecture (including 3,677 in Yokohama City), and 11,890 tests were carried out on the 7th, with an average positive rate of 84.93% in the past seven days.
The number of positive patients in Kanagawa Prefecture has soared
On the 8th, the new crown infection countermeasure center of the county government issued a notice saying, "Due to the spread of the Omikerong variant, the work pressure of medical institutions is increasing, and the statistics of the number of examinations are becoming more and more difficult." Therefore, please understand that we will stop publishing the number of tests and the positive rate. ”
The Kanagawa Prefectural Government decided not to publish the positive rate again
With a new outbreak caused by the Aomi Kerong mutation, kanagawa prefecture's recent daily increase has been increasing at a worrying rate almost every day. The utilization of hospital beds and the number of people recuperating at home have also risen. Among them, the number of people recuperating at home has approached 70,000 people.
The number of home carers is approaching 70,000
Another grim statistic is the rising proportion of unknown infection pathways. Of the confirmed cases from 1 to 7 February, an average of 85.17% of cases per day had an unknown infection path.
According to the Sankei Shimbun reported on February 6, under the influence of the rapid expansion of the Olmi kerong strain, the early diagnosis and treatment principle of "detection and treatment" gradually collapsed, and various localities have introduced measures to "reduce the burden" on medical institutions.
In Tokyo and Osaka Prefectures, for example, a system has been introduced in which family members who are in close contact with an infected person will not be tested and will be judged directly by a doctor.
There are also some localities, and after some residents test positive for themselves, the medical institutions can not accept them and directly order them to recuperate at home.
"In the face of the overwhelming number of infected people, we have to take some 'trouble-free' measures," Sankei Shimbun analysis said.
Kanagawa Prefecture also decided on January 21 that "if a resident who is recuperating at home tests positive, the medical institution may not test." On the 24th, the government decided that the autonomous body can decide on its own, and if the close connection in a family also has symptoms, the doctor can judge the "positive" under the clinical symptoms without testing. Doctors in the county said, "If there are symptoms in the close connection, (if the test) is almost all positive, because the test kit is almost 'exhausted' now, so this policy has a certain rationality." ”
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), there were 101084 new confirmed cases and 159 new deaths in Japan on February 8.
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