6% Of Keio Univ. Hospital Patients Test Positive
Tokyo's Keio University Hospital says roughly six percent of its non-coronavirus patients have tested positive for the virus.
Hospital officials say 67 patients underwent pre-surgery or pre-hospitalization screening last week. None of them had coronavirus symptoms, but four of them tested positive.
The patients are thought to have been infected outside the hospital. Officials believe the rate of infections indicates how much the virus has spread in the community.
Many of the infections reported at the hospital so far were contracted from patients transferred from Eiju General Hospital, also in Tokyo, where in-house infection is likely to have occurred. This has hampered the hospital's ability to provide treatment.
In addition, about 20 trainee doctors were infected after they dined together, despite calls for social distancing.
