Toyama Prefectural Governor Requesting Out-of-Office Self-Exclusion Highly Possibility of Declaring an Emergency State on April 13 20:19

At a press conference on Tuesday, Toyama prefecture's Governor Ishii said at a press conference that the number of people infected with the new coronavirus was rapidly moving to an extremely severe stage, and he had to say that he was on the verge of extermination. Was strongly called. He further acknowledged that, depending on the situation, the prefecture could issue its own emergency declaration.

In Toyama Prefecture, doctors and nurses became infected with the new coronavirus one after another at prefectural Chuo Hospital and Toyama Municipal Hospital, which are designated medical institutions for infectious diseases, and were confirmed in the prefecture by the 12th. It is 44 people.

Governor Ishii said at a press conference on the 13th, “We are moving to an extremely difficult stage and it is on the brink. We want you to refrain from going out of the prefecture urgently regardless of the day of the week and day and night in the prefecture And strongly called on the residents of the prefecture to refrain from going out.

The media also asked about the prefecture's own emergency declaration. "If the number of infected people increases and the number of cases where the infection route cannot be grasped increases, it is not impossible for the prefecture to make its own declaration. We will continue to watch carefully in the future, "he said, depending on the increasing number of infected people, there is a possibility of issuing a prefecture-specific emergency declaration in the future.

He explained that he will begin recruiting private hotels and other places to accept mildly ill patients as early as the 14th to prepare for the increase in infected people.

At a meeting of the prefecture's emergency response headquarters held earlier, Dr. Yuichi Ishiguro accepted a patient at the Prefectural Central Hospital, the Kurerenren Takaoka Hospital, or the Toyama University Hospital if a severely ill patient occurred in the prefecture. He explained that if the number of severely ill patients increases from 3 to 10 in the future, the hotel will secure 300 beds, about twice the current level, with the cooperation of hotels and other facilities.