Hospitals making gradual shift toward coexisting with COVID

Red tape is seen on a door to a room for COVID patients, left, while the door to a staff station is taped in green at Shonan Kamakura General Hospital in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

With Sunday marking three years since the first confirmed case of novel corona-virus infection in the nation, more hospitals are shifting toward coexisting with the virus.

Hospital beds are still scarce amid the ongoing eighth wave of COVID-19, and medical institutions are accelerating their efforts to overcome the situation by increasing the number of patients they can admit.