As the infection of the new coronavirus spreads in Miyagi prefecture, Miyagi prefecture and others conducted a survey in the downtown area on the night of the 31st to confirm the status of cooperation for requests to shorten business hours for restaurants in Sendai city. I did.
From the 25th of last month, Miyagi Prefecture and Sendai City are requesting restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages throughout Sendai City to shorten their business hours to 9 pm.
On the night of the 31st, from 9 pm, Miyagi Prefecture and Sendai City staff will investigate how many stores are cooperating with the request in the downtown area of the center, and confirm whether there are customers in the stores or whether they are closed. Was there.
Yoshihiro Tomura, the manager of the bar who is responding to the request, said, "Sales and other business conditions will be difficult, but I think that stopping infection is the highest priority, so I would like to cooperate."
In Miyagi prefecture, the number of confirmed infections on the 31st is 200, which is the highest number ever, and the infection is spreading.
Mitsuhiro Kajiwara, Deputy Chief of the Environmental Policy Division of Miyagi Prefecture, who conducted the survey, said, "We have made requests for shorter working hours, but we have received the cooperation of a considerable number of stores this time. I want to go. "