Regarding priority measures such as spread prevention, which has been expanded to 16 prefectures from the 21st, the Minister in Charge of Japan's new corona measures will be applied to areas with a high risk of infection at the request of the governors of each prefecture. However, he expressed a negative opinion about the uniform application nationwide.

As the rapid spread of the new corona continues, priority measures such as spread prevention will be applied to 13 prefectures including 1 metropolitan area and 3 prefectures and Tokai 3 prefectures from the 21st. It has been expanded to 16 prefectures.



In connection with this, the Minister in Charge of Japan's Corona, Yamagiwa, was asked at a press conference after the Cabinet meeting whether he would apply the priority measures uniformly nationwide. It is a measure of the above, and there is no system to shade everything to the point where the risk of spread of infection is not very high. "



He added, "We have a framework in which we consider and make decisions at the request of the governor, who knows the area best, and we are not in a situation where we have to change it now." He expressed a negative view on the uniform application of the nationwide.