Standards for declaring Hokkaido New Corona still exceeding Kanagawa, Tokyo

Guidelines for lifting the declaration New Tokyo Corona still exceeding in Kanagawa, Tokyo 5:32 on May 20

Regarding the situation of infection when deciding to cancel the emergency declaration in the basic countermeasure policy of the new coronavirus countermeasures, the government said "0.5 or less per 100,000 new infected persons in the last week" Of the "specific warning prefectures", the ones that exceeded this guideline in the week to 19th were Hokkaido, Tokyo, and Kanagawa prefectures. was.

Looking at the number of new infections per 100,000 people for one week until 19th based on the data compiled by NHK, it is 0.74 in Hokkaido, 0.60 in Tokyo and 0.99 in Kanagawa. .

On the other hand, Saitama prefecture has 0.30 people, Chiba prefecture has 0.22 people, Kyoto prefecture has 0.08 people, Osaka prefecture has 0.27 people, and Hyogo prefecture has 0.09 people.

In a proposal issued on 14th of this month, the expert meeting of the country discussing measures against new coronavirus is considering the infection situation even in units of living areas where there is a lot of traffic between Kanto and Kansai, but it is a specific caution prefecture In Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa prefectures in the Kanto area, which exceeds the standard of 0.57 people, in Osaka, Kyoto, and Hyogo prefectures, two prefectures and one prefecture have 0.18 people. It is below.

In addition, the basic policy of the government says, "If the number of new infections per 100,000 people in the last week is about 1 person or less, make a comprehensive judgment by checking the decreasing tendency etc." , All specific warning states fell below this value.

In addition, when calculating from the population data of each prefecture for the standard "Number of infected people in the last week is about 0.5 per 100,000 population", the standard for Tokyo is 70, but 19 The number of new infections in the week to day is 83 and 13 more.

Furthermore, in Hokkaido, there are 39 out of 26, and in Kanagawa, there are 91 out of 46.

On the other hand, in Saitama prefecture, 22 people out of 37, Chiba prefecture in 14 people out of 31 people, Kyoto prefecture in 2 people out of 13 people, Osaka prefecture in 44 people. On the other hand, there are 24 people, and in Hyogo prefecture, there are 5 people out of the standard 27 people.