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According to Toyama city, one of the people infeced is a male teenager who uses a facility for the disabled. The other is a female nurse in her 20s working at Toyama Municipal Hospital where a cluster of COVID-19 cases has been found.

Written with extracts translated from NHK & NHK World April 28 2020 A study by the Ministry of Health, LaborContinue Reading

At a welfare facility for persons with disabilities in Shibuya, Tokyo, where an outbreak of the new coronavirus occurred, two new people were found to have been infected, bringing the total number of infected people at this facility to twelve people.

In response to the outbreak of the new coronavirus at a welfare facility for people with disabilities in Chiba Prefecture, the director of affiliated facilities told the families of people with disabilities about the current status of the facility.

To prevent the coronavirus spreading further, the facility’s interior is now split into “zones” based on the risk of infection. The residential area, which is prone to virus transmission, is labelled the “red zone,” and entry is prohibited to all but the on-site medical team and facility staff wearing protective gear.

Toyama City announced on the 18th that one resident of a health care facility in the city died on the 17th, after testing positive for the new coronavirus test. This is the first time that a death due to the new coronavirus in the prefecture has been reported. The number of infected people increased by 13 to a total of 82.

Matsuzaki Akiyo, the facility’s manager, says she prefers disposable masks because cloth masks are said to be less effective in preventing infections.

Concluding that a mass infection occurred at the facility, the Hiroshima government conducted virus tests on people related to the facility.