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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
National
Hirofumi Noguchi and Yuko Shiojima / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers

Japanese elderly care facilities struggling amid infection surge

Staff members undergo training at an elderly care home in Musashino, Tokyo, on Feb. 10. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

The pace of new coronavirus cases is slowing down nationwide, but infections at elderly care facilities have continued to increase and there has also been a sharp rise in the number of cluster outbreaks.

Some people who have tested positive for coronavirus at such facilities have been forced to recuperate at their facilities because of a hospital bed shortage. But a lack of support and experience implementing virus measures is piling pressure on such facilities.

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