投薬可能な宿泊施設整備　菅首相、現地視察で表明

　菅義偉首相は１６日、新型コロナウイルス感染者の宿泊療養施設として使用されている東京都内のホテルを視察した。首相はウイルスの働きを抑える「中和抗体」を使った治療薬を投与できる宿泊療養施設を全国に整備する方針を表明。「患者の重症化を何としても防いでいきたい」と強調した。
　首相が訪れたホテルには、投薬のための臨時の医療施設が既に設置されている。首相は視察後、記者団に「薬の量は十分に確保している。全ての患者が必要な医療を受けられるよう、医療体制をしっかり構築していきたい」と述べた。（2021/08/16-16:59）

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed Monday to make available antibody cocktail treatment for COVID-19 patients isolated at hotels across Japan.
   A number of coronavirus-infected people showing no or mild symptoms are isolated at designated hotels for monitoring by health authorities in order to prevent the spread of the virus and to secure hospital beds for severely ill patients.
   "I want to prevent (hotel-staying patients) from getting severely ill, by any means," Suga said during an inspection visit to a Tokyo hotel with a temporary medical facility for administering the drug.
   Stressing that the government has sufficiently procured antibody drugs, Suga said he will "enable all COVID-19 patients to receive necessary medical treatment."
   "If it becomes possible to administer neutralizing antibodies at the hotel level to prevent symptoms' progression (without hospitalization), they will be powerful weapons (to contain the health care system crisis)," said Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, who accompanied Suga along with health minister Norihisa Tamura.