Among the 10 prefectures that have been declared a state of emergency, there is a movement to request the government to cancel it based on its own standards.

Kansai area

On the 23rd, Osaka Prefecture, along with Hyogo Prefecture and Kyoto Prefecture, requested the government to lift the state of emergency by the end of this month.



In Osaka Prefecture, the average number of new positives in the last week was 300 or less per day for 7 days, or the bed usage rate for critically ill patients was less than 60% for 7 days. In this case, the request for cancellation will be decided based on the opinions of experts, and the number of new positives was 80 on the 24th, and the number of days with 300 or less was 23 consecutive days.



In addition, the bed usage rate for critically ill patients is 44.3% on the 24th, which is the 8th consecutive day with less than 60%, according to the summary of Osaka Prefecture.



The standard of Hyogo prefecture is that "the average number of newly infected people per week is below 78.1 for one week in a row" and "the usage rate of beds for critically ill patients is less than 50% for one week in a row. If ".



According to the summary of Hyogo prefecture, the number of infected people was 28.9 on the 24th, which is lower than 78.1 for the 15th consecutive day, and the usage rate of severely ill beds was 43.1% on the 23rd, 50% for the 8th consecutive day. It is below.



The standard of Kyoto Prefecture is "the average number of new positives is less than 50 per week", and if "the usage rate of beds for critically ill patients requiring advanced treatment is less than 50%" continues for one week, Osaka or Hyogo The final decision will be made based on discussions with.



Of these, the "weekly average number of new positives" was 13.14 as of the 23rd, which was less than 50 for 18 consecutive days, and the "bed usage rate for critically ill patients requiring advanced treatment" Was 2.6% as of the 23rd, and less than 50% have continued for more than a month.

Fukuoka

Fukuoka Prefecture, which requested the government to lift the state of emergency by the end of this month, said, "The average number of new positives in a week is less than 180 for a week in a row." The standard for cancellation is that the occupancy rate of the maximum secured beds, which is 760 beds, is expected to be less than 50%.



The average number of new positives in the last week was 51.6 as of the 24th, which is less than 180 for the 23rd consecutive day.



In addition, the occupancy rate of beds was 47.2% as of the 23rd, falling below 50% for the second consecutive day.

Chukyo area

Aichi Prefecture, which requested the government to lift the state of emergency by the end of this month, said that the bed usage rate was 32% as of the 21st of this month, according to the Cabinet Secretariat, and new infections per 100,000 people in the last week. The average number of people is five.