A Japanese venture company has developed a smartphone app that can identify risks of exposure to the coronavirus inside medical institutions.
The app was created by an IT firm based in Tokyo that works with the medical industry.
During the hard times caused by the coronavirus pandemic, automakers are helping any way they can, big or small. Mazda is one of those offering support specifically for the nation's healthcare workers who are risking their own lives in order to save others. Mazda calls it the Essential Car Care Program (ECCP), and it offers free upkeep to any healthcare workers with a car, not just a Mazda.
Through the ECCP, Mazda is offering healthcare workers free oil changes and "enhanced cleaning services." The program begins April 16, 2020, and will run through select participating dealerships. To repeat, this is not only for people who drive Mazdas, it's for anybody working in healthcare. Mazda says it is "available for most makes and models from other manufacturers," excluding exotics, classic cars, off-road vehicles, and vehicles that take more than eight quarts of oil. The offer is available for service on one car per program period.
Japan's Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has asked companies that make medical supplies to increase production to help contain the coronavirus outbreak.
Abe spoke with senior corporate officials in a teleconference on Wednesday.
Japan's government is will call on companies to help address the shortage of masks and other medical supplies designed to protect medical professionals treating coronavirus patients .
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo will make the call at a teleconference on Wednesday with medical product makers and firms interested in starting to produce such items. He is to ask for the increased production of face masks, sanitizers, ventilators and other products.
A major group of doctors in Tokyo has declared a state of medical emergency, citing a possible collapse of the healthcare system.
Tokyo Medical Association President Ozaki Haruo told reporters on Monday that a steady rise in the number of coronavirus patients will not only result in a shortage of hospital beds but trigger in-house infections in hospitals.
More than 10 medical personnel were seen boarding a cruise ship docked at Yokohama Port on Saturday morning as the vessel has been quarantined in the wake of a coronavirus outbreak.
Some passengers could be seen exercising on the deck of the Diamond Princess, while others enjoyed the views.
A Japanese medical trainee says he heard that health care workers in Wuhan may have been infected with the new strain of coronavirus weeks before the media reported about it. He made the comment during a telephone interview with NHK.
The man in his twenties graduated from a university in China and trained at a hospital in Wuhan until around January 10.