Governor Koike held an extraordinary press conference on the night of the 18th, following the decision of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to take measures from the 21st of next week, when the state of emergency will shift to priority measures such as prevention of spread.
In this, Governor Koike said, "We will take strong measures based on the Special Measures Law in light of the severe infection situation."
"Today, the number of newly infected people is high at 453, and the rate of increase from the previous week is 100.7%, which has stopped declining. It is necessary to tighten our minds and work to prevent infection." I did.
On top of that, Governor Koike said, "The first point of the measures is to control the flow of people and to thoroughly implement basic infection control measures, and the second is to accelerate vaccination. We must stop the re-spread of the infection. "