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by TheOnly92 2308 days ago
Pretty spot on, a hospital in Hokkaido has to stop taking in new patients due to nurses having to take leave to care for their children.

Source (jap): https://www3.nhk.or.jp/sapporo-news/20200227/7000018387.html

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It says they even closed a whole section of the building, and there are cases of patients being asked to accept postponed hospitalization dates.

But there is a bit more to the story: that hospital is also the only one in the region designated for handling infectious disease outbreaks, and so in the face of the staff shortage, they are also planning to have the capacity to respond to cases of the virus.