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TOKYO - Japan logged more than 7,000 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday (May 8) for the first time since January, with 14 prefectures setting new highs, as its worst-hit regions struggle with a shortage of manpower and hospital beds amid early signs of a lack of oxygen ventilators.
Twenty-five people have died of Covid-19 at the eldercare facility Sunny Hill in Kobe in Hyogo prefecture, out of 97 patients and 36 staff who have contracted the virus. People are dying one after another, with an average of three deaths a day, an employee who works with dementia patients told public broadcaster NHK. We have no ventilators and can only treat patients by oxygen infusion. Paramedics have tried and failed to look for hospitals, and the patients end up coming back here.