COVID-19: Tokyo, dedicated treatment room is “compressed with infected patients”: St. Marianna Medical University Hospital
Inside the new virus treatment room:
April 24, 2020
BBC: Rupert Wingfield-Hays Tokyo correspondent
February and March stages:
Until recently, Japan was one of the countries with good control of COVID-19.
Succeeding in controlling the outbreak early, the number of infected people remained in the hundreds.
But now:
In Tokyo, more than 3,500 infections have been confirmed, and the epidemic seems to be expanding.
In Japan as a whole, more than 12,000 people are infected.
On 7th of this month, an emergency was announced in 7 prefectures such as Tokyo and Osaka.
However, doctors say that they have not yet slowed down the spread of infection and resolved the medical emergency.
BBC: Tokyo correspondent
We covered the inside of St. Marianna University School of Medicine (Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture).
In just 10 days, a temporary COVID-19 treatment room has been set up to handle the increasing number of infected patients.
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