Tokyo Metropolitan Government Leave Request Decided to provide additional payment to business operators who fully responded 18:23 on May 5

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government held a meeting of the New Coronavirus Countermeasures Headquarters, continued to request closures and shortening of business hours even after the extension of the emergency declaration. I decided to provide additional money.

Governor Koike and executives attended the meeting of the New Coronavirus Countermeasures Headquarters at 4 pm on the 5th, and the national emergency declaration was extended until 31st of this month. We discussed the correspondence.

Among them, Governor Koike pointed out that the basic coping policy of the country, which was changed on the 4th, said that the 13 special caution prefectures, including Tokyo, would require the same efforts as before even after the extension. I explained that I will continue the emergency measures of the capital that demands holidays and restaurants to close and shorten business hours until 31st of this month.

In addition, "I think that the management of SMEs will be in a severe situation due to the extension of the emergency measures period, but by implementing thorough infection prevention measures during this period, we will recover the economy sooner." In addition, after May 7, when the declaration of emergency has been extended, the company has clarified the policy to additionally provide an "infection spread prevention cooperation fund" to businesses that fully comply with the request of the city.

On the other hand, Governor Koike explained that the cooperation funds that have already been applied for will be provided sequentially from May 11.

In addition, Governor Koike said, “I would like to ask the citizens and businesses to cooperate further in refraining from going out and taking holidays. How do we find an exit in the fight against the new coronavirus? We will replace the map with a concrete policy, and draw up the knowledge of experts such as infectious diseases, economics, and risk management in the near future to formulate the future. It's been a month. Let's fight together. "

In addition, Governor Koike indicated that he would request the school's installers to close the school by 31st of this month, and promote the company to thoroughly reduce the number of employees and telework even after long holidays. , And called for continuing refraining from events and parties where multiple people, both indoors and outdoors, could get crowded.

In addition, Governor Koike compiled a supplementary budget for this year totaling 44.9 billion yen, including expenses required for improving the online learning environment necessary for the extension of school holidays, and voted by the Parliament on the 7th. It has been clarified that "exclusive disposal" will be carried out.

"The number of people who cannot track the infection route is decreasing in Tokyo"

At the Meeting of Countermeasures against New Coronavirus in Tokyo, Prof. Hiroshi Nishiura, a member of the Cluster Countermeasures Group of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, reported the results of analysis of trends in infected people in Tokyo.

Among them, Professor Nishiura said, "By the day the symptoms develop, the number of patients is definitely on the decline at the peak of early last month. However, the rate of decrease is slower than originally expected."

On the other hand, the recent trend is that "the number of people who can not track the infection route has decreased to less than half, which is a very good sign. It will soon be possible to know where the infected person was infected. More than half of the numbers are infected at home or in hospitals and other facilities, and we are moving to a situation where we are in good control. "