From the 20th, "priority measures such as prevention of spread" will be applied in four prefectures, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, and Aichi, and infections such as requesting restaurants in the target area to shorten business hours to 8:00 pm Strengthen preventive measures.

Following the spread of the new coronavirus, the government will apply "priority measures such as prevention of spread" in four prefectures, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, and Aichi, from the 20th to the 11th of next month.



Of these, Aichi Prefecture has designated Nagoya City as a target area for priority measures, and requests all restaurants in the city to shorten their business hours to 8:00 pm.



On the other hand, we request restaurants in the prefecture other than Nagoya City to open until 9:00 pm.



In addition, since infections due to the use of karaoke are occurring one after another, we are requesting stores in the prefecture to refrain from providing karaoke equipment.



In addition,


▽ Kanagawa Prefecture has three cities, Yokohama City, Kawasaki City, and Sagamihara City,


▽ Saitama Prefecture has

two cities,

Saitama City and Kawaguchi City,


and


▽ Chiba Prefecture has Funabashi City, Ichikawa City, Matsudo City, and Kashiwa City. , We request that the five cities of Urayasu City be targeted and that restaurants and other facilities be open until 8:00 pm.



Each prefecture wants to strengthen its infection prevention measures, such as calling for refraining from going out unnecessarily and urgently, and to curb the spread of infection during the period of priority measures during the Golden Week holidays.

Kanagawa Prefecture Thorough call for "mask eating and drinking"

In the three cities of Yokohama, Kawasaki, and Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, the restaurant business hours requested by the prefecture to be shortened are until 8:00 pm.



In addition to this, the prefecture is calling for unnecessary and urgent refraining from going out.



The prefecture urges restaurants in these areas to open one hour earlier, by 8:00 pm.



If you cooperate with the request, we will provide small and medium-sized enterprises with a maximum of 40,000 to 100,000 yen per day and large enterprises with a maximum of 200,000 yen per day, depending on the sales.



On the other hand, for restaurants in areas that are not subject to the measures, we have decided to continue the current request for shortening the working hours until 9:00 pm until the 11th of next month.



The maximum amount of cooperation is 25,000 to 75,000 yen per day for small and medium-sized enterprises, and 200,000 yen per day for large companies.



Furthermore, the prefecture wants to prevent the spread of infection by calling for thorough "mask eating and drinking" that keeps the mask on during dinner, and also for refraining from going out unnecessarily or urgently.



Governor Kuroiwa said, "The number of mutant viruses is increasing and we cannot be optimistic. We would like to ask the citizens of the prefecture to cooperate so that the number of infected people can be significantly reduced two weeks after the effects of the countermeasures appear."

Saitama Prefecture and city staff patrol the store to confirm infection prevention measures

In Saitama City and Kawaguchi City in Saitama Prefecture, the business hours when the prefecture requests restaurants to shorten the business hours will be one hour earlier until 8:00 pm.



A maximum of 200,000 yen will be provided to each store for companies that respond to the request.



In the target area, Saitama Prefecture will request restaurants to shorten the business hours from 9:00 pm to 8:00 pm, one hour earlier.



During the period of priority measures, the cooperation fee will be paid to the stores that responded to the cooperation, not uniformly from this time, but according to the sales so far.



Specifically, for small and medium-sized enterprises, depending on the sales of the previous year or the year before last, from 40,000 yen to a maximum of 100,000 yen per day, and for large enterprises, depending on the decrease from last year's or adult sales. The maximum is 200,000 yen per day.



In addition, employees of prefectures and cities in the target area will visit the stores to check whether infection prevention measures are being taken appropriately.



In addition, even in areas other than those subject to priority measures, we requested that the business hours of restaurants and other places be until 9:00 pm, and small and medium-sized enterprises from 25,000 yen to a maximum of 75,000 yen per day, large enterprises. Will provide a maximum of 200,000 yen in cooperation money.

Chiba Prefecture Calling for refraining from traveling and returning home during the Golden Week holidays

The target areas of Chiba Prefecture are Funabashi City, Ichikawa City, Matsudo City, Kashiwa City, and Urayasu City in the northwestern part of the prefecture, taking into account the traffic to and from Tokyo and the number of newly infected people.



Chiba Prefecture will request restaurants in five cities to open until 8:00 pm, one hour earlier than before, and will also conduct a patrol survey on thorough infection prevention measures.



We also request restaurants in areas other than the five cities to continue their business hours until 9:00 pm.



During the period, Chiba Prefecture will provide small and medium-sized enterprises with a maximum of 100,000 yen per day and large enterprises with a maximum of 200,000 yen per day, depending on the region and business scale.

In addition to these short-time requests, Chiba Prefecture called on managers and managers to take the initiative in teleworking and staggered commuting, and to refrain from visiting the prefecture for travel and homecoming during the Golden Week holidays. I would like to reduce the number of infections and prevent further spread of infection.