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According to Japan**, Japan's Noto Peninsula occurred on January 1 7After Level 6**, due to factors such as the overcrowding of some shelters and the difficulty of ensuring safe water, multiple cases of digestive and respiratory tract infections have been reported in the affected areas, including noro, COVID and influenza viruses.
Japan's Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, Keizo Takemi, said at a press conference after the cabinet meeting on the 9th that about 30 cases of digestive tract infection, including cases of norovirus infection, have been reported in the Noto Peninsula ** disaster area, and the cases are mainly concentrated in shelters. Keizo Takemi called on evacuation centers to pay attention to the prevention and control of basic post-disaster infectious diseases, and for evacuees to wear masks, wash their hands frequently, and ventilate as much as possible.
According to the risk assessment table released by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases of Japan, the disaster area faces a high risk of the spread of some diseases, including infectious gastroenteritis, acute diarrhea and other water-borne infectious diseases that use water and food as vectors, as well as pharyngeal conjunctival fever. In addition, according to local reports, there are multiple cases of COVID and flu in shelters in the disaster area**.
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has dispatched a team composed of staff from the department and experts from the National Center for International Medical Research to the disaster area on the 5th to guide the prevention and control of various infectious diseases after the earthquake.