Nursery schools in Chiba Prefecture Temporary closed days and self-restraint in schools are expanding.

Nursery schools in Chiba Prefecture Temporary closures and voluntary restraints are increasing.Emergency declaration at 6:08 on April 9

In response to the emergence of an “Emergency Declaration” due to the spread of the new coronavirus, local governments in Chiba Prefecture have been moving to temporarily close nursery schools and other facilities, and to ask parents to refrain from attending school. I am.

Of these, Chiba City, Funabashi City, Matsudo City, and Ichihara City, etc., issued a "Request to Refrain from Participating in Parents" from 7th to 8th asking parents to keep their children out of nursery schools as much as possible. Was.

In response to the national emergency declaration, many other municipalities are looking to refrain from attending schools as part of their actions to prevent the spread of infection.

In addition, Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture, announced on August 8 that the city's nursery schools and other facilities should be closed temporarily as a rule, rather than requesting self-restraint.

Kashiwa City then cites jobs related to medical care, childcare, nursing care, infrastructure, and the supply of food and daily necessities as examples of "work necessary to maintain social life", and If you do not have a child at home, and you do not have a child at home, you are required to take a special childcare procedure.

Even if you are not in these jobs, if you find that childcare at home is particularly difficult, we have exceptions for special childcare.

According to the Kashiwa City Nursery Administration Division, “Nursery schools tend to be three in all cases, so in order to reduce the risk of infection of children and nursery teachers, the term“ in principle, closed ”is a strong expression. I want you to reconsider childcare. "

Nursery schools have been reduced by half

In response to the declaration of emergency, Chiba City, which called for refraining from attending nursery schools and other places as much as possible, had a significant decrease in the number of children who had attended school on the 8th.

Among them, at the Shinjuku municipal nursery school in Chuo-ku, Chiba City, only about half of the children who attended the school stayed at about 60.

In nursery schools, this has made it easier to take infection-prevention measures in the park, such as eating away from the chair and taking a nap off the futon.

On the other hand, some people have been forced to continue using the daycare center due to work and family reasons, and a 40-year-old office worker who came to his four-year-old daughter said, I thought I should spend with my family, but I had to take care of my work.
I'm worried that having a nursery could increase the risk of infection, but I'm only grateful to the teachers who helped me. "

Also, a 42-year-old office worker who came to her 4-year-old second son said, "The more children I gather, the higher the risk of infection, so I feel burdened with taking care of it. "

Eriko Kono, director of Shinjuku Nursery School, said, "Nursery schools are a place where crowds are likely to occur, so I'm glad I had a request to refrain from going to the nursery school. I want to do that. "