Suga, “Respond immediately if necessary” to request for additional emergency in Kansai
Recorded 7,000 corona confirmed cases for three consecutive days
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on the 10th that three regional governments in the Kansai region, including Osaka Prefecture, requested the government to declare an emergency situation, saying “we are preparing to respond immediately if necessary.”
Prime Minister Suga said this morning by appearing on the local public broadcaster NHK’s’Sunday Discussion’.
Earlier, the heads of three regional organizations in Kansai, including Osaka Prefecture, Hyogo Prefecture, and Kyoto Prefecture, requested at an online meeting on the previous day to review the issue of the emergency situation with Yastoshi Nishimura, the government’s minister in charge of countermeasures against Corona 19.
The Japanese government has already issued an emergency situation from the 8th of this month to the 7th of the following month in four metropolitan municipalities including Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba. Prime Minister Suga said about the three areas in Kansai that requested an emergency declaration the day before, “I know it is an urgent situation,” and “we need to see the situation for a few more days.”
Accordingly, there is a possibility that the declaration of emergency confined to the metropolitan area will soon be expanded to the Kansai region. This is the second emergency declaration, following from April to May last year, ▲ refraining from going out after 8 p.m. ▲ reducing restaurant business hours to 8 p.m. ▲ reducing the number of attendees by 70%. Although the Japanese government re-initiated an emergency situation in the metropolitan area, it was found that the alertness to Corona 19 was not very high.
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In fact, the number of new corona 19 confirmed cases in Japan continued for the third consecutive day. According to the NHK broadcast that day, the number of newly confirmed corona19 infections across Japan the previous day was 7,790. After the 8th (7,882 people), which was the most common daily, the 2nd largest number of confirmed cases came out.
The number of confirmed cases of 7,000 per day is the third day since the 7th (7,570) of the emergency re-declaration in the metropolitan area including Tokyo. The cumulative confirmed number reached 283,000, and the number of deaths increased by 59 the day before to 4,035, reaching the 4,000 level. As of the 7th, there were 52,128 gene amplification (PCR) tests conducted throughout Japan for a day.
According to an analysis by telecom company NTT DoCoMo, the floating population in downtown Tokyo areas such as Ginza, Shibuya, and Shinjuku at noon on the 9th, the first weekend after the emergency was reissued in the metropolitan area, decreased by only 30-40% compared to before the spread of the infection. . Compared to the sharp drop of about 70% in April of last year when the first emergency was issued, the decline has been greatly reduced.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Suga said about the dissolution of the House of Representatives and the general election, “I think there are several times,” and “Because I think the direction of solving the novel coronavirus problem is important, I will do my best to deal with the corona problem first.” . Yukio Edano, the head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of the 1st opposition party, who appeared on the same NHK program, criticized, “The government is responding to the (Corona 19) situation lightly.”
/ Reporter Kihyuk Kim [email protected]
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