Governor Oikawa held an extraordinary press conference in the evening after the number of people who were announced to be infected with the new coronavirus was 222 in Ibaraki prefecture on the 30th. It is increasing faster than in Tokyo, "he said, expressing a sense of crisis, and said that he had begun to consider whether to request the government to declare a state of emergency.
Governor Oikawa will make a final decision next Tuesday after seeing the infection situation this weekend.