Guidelines for lifting the declaration New coronavirus surpasses in Tokyo and Kanagawa

Guidelines for lifting declaration Declaration of new coronavirus in Tokyo and Kanagawa May 21 13:34

Regarding the status of infection when the government decides to cancel the emergency declaration in the basic countermeasure policy of the new coronavirus countermeasures, the government says "0.5 or less per 100,000 new infected persons in the last week" It is supposed to be as a guide. Of the six prefectures of Kanto and the prefectures of Yamanashi, those that exceeded this standard in the week to 20th were Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures.

Looking at the number of new infected people per 100,000 people for one week until the 20th based on the data compiled by NHK, out of the “special caution prefectures” in Kanto, 0.56 in Tokyo and Kanagawa in While it was above the standard of 1.11, it fell below 0.31 in Saitama and 0.21 in Chiba.

In addition, Tochigi prefecture had 0.36, Gunma prefecture had 0.05, Yamanashi prefecture had 0.37, and Ibaraki prefecture had no infected person in the last week.

In a proposal issued on 14th of this month, the expert meeting of the country discussing measures against the new type coronavirus is examining the infection situation even in units of living areas where there is a lot of traffic between Kanto and Kansai, but with special caution prefectures In Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa prefectures in the Kanto area, the number is 0.59, which is higher than the standard.

In addition, the basic policy of the government says, "If the number of new infections per 100,000 people in the last week is about 1 person or less, make a comprehensive judgment by checking the decreasing tendency etc." Of Kanto prefectures of 6 prefectures and Yamanashi prefecture, only Kanagawa prefecture was exceeded.

In addition, when calculating from the population data of each prefecture for the standard "The number of infected people in the last week is about 0.5 per 100,000 population", the standard in Tokyo is 70, but 20 The number of new infections in the week to day is 78 and 8 more, and in Kanagawa prefecture it is 102 and 56 more than the target 46.

On the other hand, in Saitama prefecture, 23 people out of 37, Chiba prefecture in 13 people out of 31 people, Gunma prefecture in 1 out of 10 people, Tochigi prefecture in 10 people On the other hand, there are 7 people, and in Yamanashi prefecture, there are 3 people compared to 4 people.