Japan today (7th) has more than 7,000 confirmed cases, and for a month, it has declared a’emergency’. However, restaurants, department stores, and schools are also open and prohibited only after 8 PM. There are concerns that it will be difficult to catch Corona 19 after a month in this way.
This is Yoon Seol-young’s correspondent.
[기자]
Tokyo has more than 2,400 confirmed cases per day.
Nearly 1,000 more than the previous day.
The number of confirmed cases nationwide exceeded 7,000 for the first time.
Prime Minister Suga declared an emergency as announced.
[스가 요시히데/일본 총리 : 우선 음식점은 오후 8시까지 영업시간을 단축해주시고, 둘째로는 재택근무를 통해 출근자 수를 70%로 줄여주십시오.]
The target is Tokyo and the three nearby prefectures, and the period is one month.
Citizens are required to refrain from going out after 8 PM.
Although an emergency has been declared, restaurants and department stores are open as usual.
You can also go to the theater or concert hall.
All you have to do is keep the 8pm business hours.
The infection situation is more severe than in the first emergency in April, but the robbery is looser.
Even this is not compulsory, so there is no penalty.
Experts are concerned that such’incomplete lockdown’ cannot prevent the spread of corona.
Professor Hiroshi Nishiura of Kyoto University pointed out, “It takes two months or more for the situation in Tokyo to calm down.”
This means that the emergency declaration period may be longer than expected.
Hospitals are already complaining that a medical collapse has occurred.
88% of corona beds are full, but more people are waiting for hospitalization.
[나카가와 도시오/일본의사회 회장 : (긴급사태 선언을) 전국으로 확대하는 것도 생각해야 합니다. 현실은 이미 의료 붕괴입니다.]
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