93% of public schools nationwide are closed Increase due to expansion of emergency declaration April 18 18:22
As a result of the new coronavirus, the number of public elementary, junior high, and high schools that have been closed is more than 90% of the total number of public elementary schools and junior high schools. .
According to the Ministry of Education, as of the 22nd of this month, 93% of all public schools in Japan were closed.
The breakdown is 73% for kindergartens, 95% for elementary schools, 95% for middle schools, and 97% for high schools.
The percentage of public schools that were closed as of the 10th of this month was 64% nationwide, but as the scope of the emergency declaration was expanded to the whole country on the 16th of this month, more and more places were closed. It means that
As a result, most public schools nationwide, except for some areas such as Iwate, Tottori and Kagoshima prefectures, are closed again.