The three prefectures in the Tokyo metropolitan area have agreed to continue requesting restaurants and other facilities to shorten business hours in April to prevent the spread of the infection again.

The time is until 9:00 pm, and the cooperation fee is 40,000 yen per day.

The governors of Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa held an online meeting and agreed to set the "rebound prevention period" for the new coronavirus from April 1.



In addition, in order to prevent the spread of the infection again, it was agreed to continue requesting restaurants to shorten business hours in April.



▽ The period is until April 21st,


▽ Business hours are until 9:00 pm, which is the same as the current request, and liquor is served until 8:00 pm.


▽ The cooperation fee is the same as it is now, 40,000 yen per day.



On the other hand, we will continue to request the citizens of Tokyo and the prefecture to refrain from going out unnecessarily.



In addition, the request for event restrictions will continue until April 18th, in line with national transitional measures.



The accommodation rate is


▽ up to 100% for those who do not make a


loud voice ▽

up

to 50% for those who make a loud voice, and the



maximum number of people is


▽ 5000 people


or


▽ up to 10,000 people within 50% of the capacity I will do it.



After that, we will compare the conditions of the accommodation rate and the maximum number of people, and request that the event be held with the smaller number of people.



In addition, it was requested that the holding time be until 9 pm.

Governor Koike "Preventing Rebound"

After the meeting of the Tokyo Metropolitan Countermeasures Headquarters, Governor Koike told reporters, "Unfortunately, the number of new positives is increasing. Thank you for your cooperation from this perspective as well. "



On top of that, "It's spring break now, the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, and it's the season for dinner, thank-you party, and welcome and farewell party, but please refrain from doing so as part of preventing rebounds. I would like it to be an important period of time. "



In addition, Governor Koike has announced that he will prepare a supplementary budget of 107.4 billion yen by providing cooperation funds to stores that fully respond to requests for shortening business hours after April, and this will be a countermeasure against the new coronavirus. He explained that the total budget will exceed 3 trillion yen.

Governor Morita of Chiba Prefecture "Flexible each time"

Governor Morita of Chiba Prefecture said, "The occupancy rate of beds in Chiba Prefecture was 33.4% as of the 23rd, and although it is declining, it cannot be said that there is room for it. I would like to strongly appeal that there is no such thing. "



On top of that, regarding continuing the request for shortening business hours until April 21, "I strongly agree that one city and three prefectures must work together. In such a situation, we should be flexible each time. That's it. "

Governor Kuroiwa of Kanagawa Prefecture "One city and three prefectures should match"

Governor Kuroiwa of Kanagawa Prefecture said that he would continue to request shortening of business hours until April 21st, saying, "We need to be cautious about the spread of the infection, and we agree."



He added, "If the number of infected people decreases before the deadline, it is okay to think ahead of schedule, but even in that case, one city and three prefectures should work together."

Closed parks such as Ueno Zoo Regulations on metropolitan parks continue

As the number of confirmed infections with the new coronavirus is increasing in Tokyo, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided to continue requesting restaurants to shorten business hours until April 21st.



The Tokyo Metropolitan Government held a meeting of the countermeasures headquarters for the new coronavirus on the evening of the 24th to discuss future measures.



Among them, we decided to set the "rebound prevention period" until April 21st, and continue to request restaurants and karaoke shops throughout Tokyo to shorten their business hours to 9 pm.



For businesses that fully respond, we will provide a total of 840,000 yen, which is the same as the current 40,000 yen, for each store per day.



In addition, the closure of metropolitan facilities such as Ueno Zoo, traffic restrictions in metropolitan parks, and prohibition of banquets and eating and drinking will continue.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Cooperation Fund Payment In some cases it takes time due to incomplete documents

Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the proportion was paid the cooperation money of shortening the request of the business hours for the food and beverage outlets,


▽ year-end and New Year holidays to 70 percent at the request period in which the capital went on its own,


▽ associated with the emergency declaration, from January this year In the period until the beginning of February before the first extension, it is 20%, and the


Tokyo Metropolitan Government is calling for careful confirmation of the contents before applying, as it may take time to decide the payment due to incomplete documents etc. ..



Of these, from December 18th last year to January 7th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government made its own time-saving request, and for 59,437 applications, by 22nd, more than 70%, or 44,105, would be paid. It means that I went.



In addition, the state of emergency was declared, which is 20% of the approximately 58,000 applications so far during the month from January 8 to February 7, before the first extension. It means that about 11,000 payments were made.



Applications for this period will be accepted until the 25th.



Depending on the city, there are cases where the documents are incomplete, such as the lack of a copy of the business permit, and each time the business operator is contacted to request resubmission.



The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is calling for the application to be made after carefully checking the contents, saying that it may take some time for the payment to be made if there are any deficiencies.



On the other hand, applications for cooperation funds from February 8th to March 7th, before the re-extension, will start accepting applications from the 26th.