Nagasaki Prefecture Governor Kengo Oishi announces that he will review the total number of people infected with the new coronavirus at the Nagasaki Prefectural Government Office in Onoe, Nagasaki, on Sept. 1, 2022. (Mainichi/Akira Nakazato)
Kengo Oishi, Governor of Nagasaki Prefecture, said on the 1st that he would review the “knowing of the total number” of people infected with the new coronavirus, and that the “notification of outbreaks” submitted by medical institutions to public health centers would be limited to the elderly and those at high risk of becoming seriously ill. Announced. Start as early as next week.
According to the prefectural government, only people aged 65 and over, people who need hospitalization, people who are at risk of becoming seriously ill, and pregnant women are eligible to report outbreaks. Governor Oishi explained, “It took time for medical institutions to input the total number of infected people. We decided to review the situation in light of the tight medical situation.”[Akira Nakazato]