Drills to open shelters in case of disaster Corona infection prevention measures Shiga Nagahama July 13 18:28

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In Nagahama City, Shiga Prefecture, we took measures to prevent infection with the new coronavirus, and then conducted training to open an evacuation shelter in the event of a disaster.

About 60 city officials participated in the training held at a junior high school in Nagahama on the 13th.

The training was conducted on the assumption that a typhoon would flood a nearby river and open an evacuation center.

At the gymnasium at the venue, staff members divided the work and installed cardboard partitions. The partition is about 1 meter high so that the evacuees next to it will not fly.

Also, we taped the mats on which the evacuated people would sit to leave a 1 meter gap between them. However, it was pointed out that the tape was solid green and it was difficult to distinguish between the space used as a passage and the seating area.

At the reception, we checked the temperature according to the guidelines of the city, and confirmed the procedure for the evacuees with a fever to be directed by a public health nurse to have them move to another room and contact the public health center.

Yasuyuki Yano, Chief of Disaster Prevention and Crisis Management Bureau, Nagahama City, said, "I could see future issues such as color coding of the space and securing a sense of distance during temperature measurement during the training. It was.