Japan will not make a total PCR tests for mers, because to get the all the inhabitants, and that more than 126 million people, will be difficult, Reuters reported. Instead, efforts to identify disease will be directed to the most vulnerable groups and those most at risk. This was stated by the Minister for the economic recovery of Japan, Yasutoshi Nishimura, who also oversees the fight against COVID-19.
According to the Minister, even the total check will not bring much benefit, as any person with a negative test result may, at any time to get sick. And check out all at once, to isolate sick people, “would be ideal, but it’s impossible,” said Nishimura.
Therefore the focus of the tests will be aimed at the elderly and people with chronic diseases, which carry heavier consequences of infection with the coronavirus, as well as those who are at risk in the first place is the doctors and staff of medical institutions, as well as the nightly entertainment.
At the peak of testing in Japan was conducted more than 27 thousand surveys daily. Now in connection with a reduction in the spread of the disease is about ten thousand tests per day.
In Japan there are currently, according to Ministry of health of the country, of 17.7 thousand cases, 916 people died, about 15 thousand recovered. However, over the last two days in Japan has not been a single death from the effects of coronavirus. About 24% of the deaths associated with the spread of infection in hospitals, reported by the Japanese newspaper Mainichi, citing a summary from medical sources and from local authorities.
