Governor Omura of Aichi Prefecture has announced that if the state of emergency is lifted and shifts to priority measures such as prevention of spread, 14 cities and towns such as Nagoya will be targeted for priority measures.
While requesting restaurants in the target area to continue to shorten their business hours by 8:00 pm, the policy is to allow alcoholic beverages that are currently being refrained from being served until 7:00 pm.
According to the announcement, Aichi Prefecture plans to target 14 cities and towns in the prefecture where the number of new infected persons exceeds the stage 3 index when shifting to priority measures such as spread prevention.
Specifically, Nagoya City, Kasugai City, Tsushima City, Inuyama City, Komaki City, Kiyosu City, Toyoyama Town, Oguchi Town, Oji Town, Handa City, Okazaki City, Kariya City, Takahama City, Toyohashi City.
These 14 cities and towns are urging restaurants to continue to shorten their business hours to 8:00 pm, while now allowing liquor to be refrained from serving until 7:00 pm.
It also means that while requesting restaurants to shorten their business hours to 9 pm outside the areas covered by the priority measures, liquor will be allowed during business hours.
In addition, for large-scale customer attraction facilities such as department stores and pachinko parlors, we request that business hours be shortened by 8:00 pm in areas subject to priority measures and by 9:00 pm outside the target areas.
On the other hand, we are not requesting holidays on Saturdays and Sundays, which we are currently doing.
In addition, we will continue to ask the citizens of the prefecture to refrain from moving across prefectures that are unnecessary and urgent, and for unnecessary and urgent going out, especially after 8:00 pm in the target areas of priority measures, and after 9:00 pm outside the target areas. I ask you to refrain from doing so.
In addition, the company announced that it will extend the opening period of the new large-scale inoculation site for the new coronavirus vaccine in Toyohashi City by one week from next month 10th to September 3rd.