As the new coronavirus infection continues to spread, a group has investigated the impact on business establishments that support employment for people with disabilities, and more than half of the business establishments said that “the mask is not expected to be distributed from the local government.”
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.
As well as a shortage of protective gear, doctors and nurses are on the brink of collapse from exhaustion. If the situation worsens, lives that could have been saved will be lost, a health care worker has warned.
Sales of bread made by a welfare workplace for persons with disabilities in Saitama City have fallen sharply due to the effects of the spread of new coronavirus infections, which resulted in the closing of one of their childcare centers.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to expand the state of emergency currently effective for selected prefectures to the entire nation in an attempt to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading further and straining the country’s health care system, a government official said Thursday.
Concluding that a mass infection occurred at the facility, the Hiroshima government conducted virus tests on people related to the facility.
A total of 18 people were newly confirmed to be infected, including 11 residents and 7 staff at the facility for intellectually disabled people, “Mishin Gakuen,” located in Saeki Ward, Hiroshima City.
With the spread of the new coronavirus infection, due to the lack of ventilators, a debate about who should give priority has started in Japan.
At two facilities for the disabled, operated by a social welfare corporation in Tokorozawa City, a total of 10 staff members and users were found to be infected, and the prefecture was examined as a cluster.
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