Since the "Medical Emergency Declaration" was issued on November 11th last year, the occupancy rate of secured beds in this prefecture increased to 14% on November 11th and December 27th.
　It has remained below 20% since January 50th of this year, and has fallen to 33.0% as of yesterday.

　In addition, the number of hospitalizations due to nosocomial infections, etc., in hospitals other than reserved beds increased to 12 on December 4,
　As of yesterday, it has decreased to 122 people.

　The prefecture's medical care system faced an extremely difficult situation at one point, and the severe situation continued for an unprecedentedly long period of time.
　Thanks to the efforts of all the medical and nursing care workers and the cooperation of the citizens of the prefecture, we were able to overcome this.

　Therefore, the "Medical Emergency Declaration" will be lifted.As of yesterday, 306 people were hospitalized.
　Since the burden on the medical care provision system continues, we will switch to a "medical emergency alert" and aim to further reduce the medical burden.

　In addition, as a prefecture, we will continue to steadily promote efforts toward the convergence of the XNUMXth wave, and at the same time
　In anticipation of the change in the status of the disease under the Infectious Diseases Control Law, we will do our utmost to protect the reliable livelihoods of everyone in the prefecture.

　Currently, the infection alert level in the Ueda area is XNUMX.We ask for your cooperation in maximizing both socioeconomic activities and preventing the spread of infection.

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