Training to prevent the transmission of the new coronavirus was held in Shiogama City, Miyagi Prefecture, at an evacuation center in the event of a disaster.
The training held by Shiogama City was conducted on the assumption that a large earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 occurred off Sanriku, and the operation procedure to prevent the infection of the new coronavirus at 20 designated evacuation centers in the city. I confirmed.
At the gymnasium of Tamagawa Elementary School, one of the designated evacuation shelters, the city staff who operate the evacuation shelter and eight local residents gather, and the partition board provided at the conventional evacuation shelter cannot block the flight during conversation. Therefore, we assembled the tent that was introduced last year.
After that, the residents moved to the storage warehouse in the schoolyard and were informed that air purifiers and masks were stored.
Takahiro Tachibana, chief of the Shiogama City Child Care Support Division, who is in charge of the evacuation center at this elementary school, said, "There are still many issues to be solved to prevent the spread of infection. I would like to continue to devise ways to prepare for emergencies. "