St. Marianna University Yokohama Seibu Hospital department of emergency and critical care medicine doctor Hiroki Saito talks with his colleague workers inside the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward at St. Marianna University Yokohama Seibu Hospital where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are being treated in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan May 25, 2021. REUTERS/Issei Kato
TOKYO (Reuters) - When Hiroki Saito took over the intensive-care ward on Tuesday morning, room No. 8 at the end of its cordoned-off section had been cleaned, locked up, and a ventilator beaming red light set in motion to disinfect the air.
"A 79-year-old patient died here this morning," Saito said as he walked through the corridors, checking on patients and staff. "His family was told by the night shift doctor. They would not be able to say their goodbyes directly."
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