Coronavirus cluster found at Shiga medical facility for children and people with disabilities
A new cluster of the coronavirus was found a welfare facility for the people with disabilities on March 18th.
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Many Blood Drives Canceled in Japan amid Pandemic
While the number of visitors to donation rooms are almost at target levels despite the pandemic, there has been a spate of cancellations of offers to accept donation buses, due to concerns about the infection spread.
Family says man with disability in central Japan died of COVID after poor hospital care
A 24-year-old man with a severe intellectual disability died four days after he was sent to hospital with COVID-19 and then returned home without sufficient examination or treatment, his family told the Mainichi Shimbun on March 9.
After Coronavirus Cluster at Hokkaido School for the Intellectually Disabled, positive Staff forced to care for positive Students
At Muroran Kotosen Gakuen in Muroran City, where children with intellectual disabilities and others are enrolled, a cluster of new coronavirus cases broke out at the end of February, forcing the staff of the isolated facility who tested positive for the virus, to provide care to those students who tested positive for the virus.
Elderly COVID-19 cases pile pressure on hospitals in Japan
Pressure on medical institutions is mounting amid a surge in the number of elderly COVID-19 patients being hospitalized and delays in the transfer of recuperating patients to backup facilities.
COVID deaths increasing among elderly in Japan despite prevalence of less lethal omicron variant
Record-high COVID deaths have been logged on several days amid the sixth wave of the pandemic, with the cumulative toll exceeding 20,000 as of Friday.
Japan PM Kishida Vows to Help Expand COVID-19 Care Capacity
The government will dispatch nurses to Tokyo and Osaka from public hospitals, Kishida said in separate meetings with Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura.
Yamanashi offers booster shots for employees at facilities for people with disabilities
On February 7th Yamanishi prefecture started offering the third vaccination shot against the new coronavirus for medical workers and others, as well as vaccination of employees of facilities for the disabled, where clusters are likely to occur.
Tokyo to seek COVID emergency based on severe patients’ bed occupancy
As of Wednesday, the rate of hospital bed occupancy secured for patients with serious symptoms was 15.1 percent, and those requiring oxygen supply was 8 percent.
Japan’s Daily Coronavirus Count Tops 90,000 for 1st Time, 886 Seriously ill patients
Seriously ill COVID-19 patients totaled 886, up 82 from Tuesday, and 82 people, including 19 in Osaka Prefecture and six in Tokyo, died of the diseases.
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