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Tokyo raises alert for medical system to highest level (nationthailand.com)

Tokyo raises alert for medical system to highest level

Dec 18. 2020

By The Japan News/ANN

The Tokyo metropolitan government raised the alert for the city’s medical system to the highest of four possible levels on Thursday due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, marking the first time it has done so since the current evaluation system was introduced in July.

The decision was made at a monitoring meeting with experts held on Thursday afternoon. It came as the city set a new daily record for newly confirmed cases, with Tokyo logging 822 cases Thursday, a significant increase over the previous record of 678 set the day before.

In keeping with the higher alert level, the metropolitan government will increase the number of hospital beds reserved for coronavirus patients to 4,000 from the current 3,000, including an increase of 50 beds for severely ill patients.

The number of hospitalized patients exceeded 2,000 for the first time on Monday. On Tuesday, the number of seriously ill people jumped to 78, the highest level since the state of emergency was lifted in May.

By Dec. 10, the metropolitan government had asked medical institutions to set up more beds. As a result, the number of beds for the severely ill has increased from 150 to 200 and the figure for the mildly and moderately ill has jumped from 2,640 to 3,000.

The number of infected has remained high since then, and the government decided that it was necessary to further strengthen the medical system. The government therefore asked medical institutions in Tokyo to further increase the number of beds, including those for the severely ill.

The alert level regarding the status of infections in Tokyo has remained at the highest level on a four-rank scale since Nov. 19.