According to Kyodo News, on June 9, local time, a research team led by Professor Hiroshi Nishiura of Infectious Diseases at Kyoto University, Japan, reported at a meeting of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s New Crown Epidemic Countermeasures Expert Organization Meeting. On October 20, the emergency declarations in Tokyo and other places were lifted. Even if the new crown vaccination progress is accelerated, the epidemic in Tokyo will continue to spread again.
By August, it may be unavoidable to enter a state of emergency again.
The calculation did not consider the impact of hosting the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
The chairman of the expert organization Takashi Wakita said at the press conference: "Hosting the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will become a factor leading to the further spread of the epidemic."
In addition, it is speculated that by mid-July, the mutated new coronavirus found in India will replace the mutated new coronavirus found in the UK and become the mainstream of new coronaviruses in Japan.
The mutated new coronavirus found in India is about 1.78 times more infectious than the original virus, and about 1.2 times that of the mutated new coronavirus found in the United Kingdom.
Regarding the national epidemic situation and the current status of the medical delivery system, the expert organization analyzed that although there has been a general trend of relaxation in severely epidemic areas, the flow of people in some areas has increased significantly, and "there may be a rebound in the future."
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(Producing Li Jiali)
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