“Temporary school closure” begins School response ... Changes in work style also changed on March 2 at 13:34

In order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, temporary closures have started at schools nationwide, starting from the 2nd, at the request of the government.
Some municipalities have taken measures such as accelerating school childcare acceptance hours and taking care of children at schools that are closed.

Acceptance of children by family circumstances Saitama City

Elementary schools in Saitama City, which are closed temporarily from the 2nd, take special measures to accept children at home where their parents work.

At Tokiwa Elementary School in Urawa-ku, Saitama with 945 children, 74 children attended school with their parents.

104 public elementary schools in Saitama City will be temporarily closed from the 2nd to the 13th of this month, but the school is open to classrooms for parents and other children at home.

The children were learning about kanji and calculation drills by opening windows and providing ventilation and washing their hands frequently.

A freshman girl said, "I'm sorry because I have no friends but I want to spend my favorite book."

The girl's father said, "I was very surprised to be suddenly closed temporarily, but the school has taken care of my children and has been very helpful."

Early childcare reception hours

As elementary schools are closed temporarily, schoolchildcare, which is a place where children live, is indispensable for dual-income families. In response to a sudden request from the government, the worksite has been busy.

Elementary schools in Koto-ku, Tokyo have been temporarily closed from the 2nd.
In response, the Toyo Gakudo Club in the ward hastened the acceptance of children starting at 1:30 pm on a normal weekday to 8:30 am

From the morning, nine children gathered at the facility, and after doing hand washing and measuring body temperature, worked on homework given at school.

The school children's club has three staff members, a part-time staff and a part-time worker. However, the early start of acceptance has led to the immediate support of four staff members of the attached children's house.

A mother in her forties, who came to leave her children, said, "When I was decided to leave school, I was worried if someone at work would be able to come to work because I wasn't able to do remote work. That's it. "

Noriko Takasaka, the chief of the school children's club, said, "This is a ward and is a facility attached to the children's house, so we were able to secure some staff, but I think other school children are having a hard time. I will be careful not to cause infection. "

Some people switch to telecommuting

More and more people are switching to working from home to take care of their children.

Among them, Atsushi Yokota (37), who works for a major airline, Japan Airlines, will take care of his first grader son Ryo-kun (6) working from home for the next two weeks to work together with his wife who works for an IT company. You.

Up until now, the company has been working from home once a month, but the company has been working at home for about 4,000 employees since the spread of the new coronavirus from last month. This means that school closure has begun.

Yokota created a two-week home timetable so that the rhythm of his life would not change drastically.

On the 2nd, Mr. Yokota worked on a computer for business use and watched a conference call with her boss at work while watching Ryo-kun perform learning tests distributed at school according to the timetable. I was doing it.

And between work I checked Liao-kun's body temperature, washed my hands and ate snacks.

Regarding working at home while raising children, Mr. Yokota says, “I'm honest that I can't hide the fuss when I wonder if this life will continue in the next two weeks or if it will really end in two weeks. I want to give it away. "

Some hospitals stop general outpatient clinics

At a hospital in Urayasu City, Chiba Prefecture, nurses and others were unable to go to work.

It was the Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center in Urayasu, Chiba that began restricting medical care.
According to the hospital, some nurses and laboratory technicians, including children, may not be able to attend work due to temporary closures such as elementary and junior high schools.

Specifically, except for emergency patients, general outpatients will be referred from a clinic for the time being and will only accept patients with a reservation.

I would like to consider restarting medical treatment while looking at the situation.

On the other hand, this hospital is a designated medical institution for infectious diseases in Chiba Prefecture, but says that there is no problem with the treatment of patients with the new coronavirus.

The hospital says, "We accept patients with high urgency in emergency cases. It is a measure with care, but please understand."