However, hospital admissions showed a decreasing trend in the number of patients from the pandemic hroughout the month of August in the observation period.
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency admission for patients with stroke: a time series study in Japan.
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Previous studies focusing on COVID-19 have shown a highly significant decrease in the number of visits to emergency cardiology departments during lockdowns [ 2 , 3 ].
This may have been due to the fact that the number of infected people in Japan had been on an increasing trend since late July 2020, exceeding the maximum number under the declaration of the state of emergency [ 1 ].