Households evacuating 20% of record heavy rainfall in Gifu Hesitation about corona infection August 8 at 6:27
It's been a month since 8 days since record heavy rains have damaged Gifu prefecture. According to a survey conducted by NHK in a severely damaged area in Gero City, Gifu Prefecture, about 20% of the respondents found that they were hesitant to evacuate because of the new coronavirus infection at evacuation shelters. It was
In Gifu prefecture, a heavy rain special warning was issued to six cities on the 8th of last month, river flooding and landslides occurred in various places, and more than 430 houses mainly in Gero city were inundated. It was
From the 27th to the 31st of last month, NHK conducted an interview survey on evacuation behavior at that time in Nagase district, Kosaka-cho, Gero city, where 135 households were one of the most damaged areas. I got it.
As a result, 19 households answered that they were hesitant to evacuate from the risk of new coronavirus infection, which was 21%.
Of these, 6 households went to the evacuation centers with anxiety, and 9 households did not evacuate anywhere.
Nobody was confirmed infected in Gero City as of the heavy rain last month, but one of the respondents said, "I thought the evacuation site gym was dense and not ventilated." "Daughter I was pregnant and worried."
Maki Koyama Associate Professor of familiar with the evacuation Gifu University is, 20% to were no "infected person's impression that many.
Now that has infected persons has increased throughout the country, that hesitate to evacuate more people I wondered.”
In addition, before the full-scale typhoon season, "I want you to decide the evacuation destination concretely with the awareness that you will disperse in the relative's house etc. in a safe place so that you can evacuate without hesitation. The government is also required to create an opportunity for residents to think about distributed evacuation."