An expert meeting of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare was held to advise on measures against the new coronavirus, and the number of newly infected people remained at the lowest level since last summer, and it is important to maintain the state of improvement.
It is necessary to be careful that the chances of contact with people will increase due to annual events such as year-end parties and Christmas toward the end of the year, and we call on people who have been vaccinated to continue to take measures against infection, such as wearing masks except when eating and drinking. I did.
According to an expert meeting, the number of newly infected people has remained at the lowest level since last summer, and the number of people dying has also fallen below the level before the spread of the infection in the summer.
In many areas, the number of people at night continues to increase, and although there are places where clusters are occurring, there are no areas where the trend is continuing to increase.
On the other hand, in the future, as the temperature drops, indoor activities will increase, and it is expected that there will be more opportunities for people to come into contact with each other at annual events such as year-end parties, Christmas, and New Year holidays toward the end of the year. He said it was important to maintain the current state of improvement in anticipation of the spread of the infection again.
In addition, the expert meeting said that breakthrough infections that infect even if vaccinated due to a decrease in the level of neutralizing antibody have occurred in other countries where vaccination precedes, and that the infection has re-spread, and when the measures are relaxed. In addition to considering additional vaccinations, it is necessary for the local government to provide information to those who have not yet been vaccinated.
Furthermore, considering that there is a risk of outbreaks if certain high-risk situations overlap, select a store that has been certified for infection control when eating and drinking, including those who have completed vaccination. We urged each and every one of us to continue basic infection control measures, such as wearing a mask except when it is time.
The number of newly infected people nationwide continues to be the lowest level in this year
According to the data presented at the expert meeting of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare held on the 9th, the number of newly infected people decreased by 0.76 times nationwide in the week up to the 8th compared to the previous week. It has been at the lowest level since then, but in some areas it has increased or leveled off.
In the Tokyo metropolitan area, 1 metropolitan area and 3 prefectures
increased from flat to
0.91 times in Tokyo,
1.07 times in Chiba prefecture,
and 1.09 times in Kanagawa prefecture, while
decreased to 0.53 times in Saitama prefecture.
In 2 prefectures and 1 prefecture in Kansai,
▽ Osaka prefecture is 0.71 times,
▽ Kyoto prefecture is 0.68 times, and
▽ Hyogo prefecture is 0.73 times.
In the Chukyo area,
it decreased by
0.60 times in Aichi prefecture and
0.74 times in Mie prefecture, while
it increased by 1.39 times in Gifu prefecture.
In other areas,
▽ Fukuoka prefecture is 0.57 times,
▽ Okinawa prefecture is 0.83 times, etc., while
▽ Hokkaido is 1.28 times,
▽ Okayama prefecture is 1.69 times, etc. Some areas are increasing.
Looking at the current infection status in terms of the number of infected people per 100,000 population in the last week, the highest number is
▽ Okayama prefecture also has 4.55 and 5 people,
▽ Gifu prefecture has 3.93 people,
▽ Okinawa prefecture has 3.37 people,
▽ Osaka prefecture has 2.66 people,
▽ Tokyo has 1.08 people, etc.
▽ There were 1.05 people nationwide.
Chair Wakita "Cooperation with local governments to consider measures to prepare for the next spread of infection"
At a press conference after the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's expert meeting, Chairman Takaji Wakita commented on the five levels newly set by the government subcommittee: "Medical resources vary considerably from municipality to municipality, so new indicators are for each medical resource. The local government is supposed to decide according to the above. It is not uniform nationwide as in the past. For the time being, the local government will decide what will happen if the spread of infection so far is applied to this index while utilizing past data. I think it's time to verify. We will also work with local governments to verify and consider measures to prepare for the next spread of infection. "
Regarding the mitigation of border measures, "There was a discussion at the meeting about what kind of risk analysis was used to mitigate the risk, but the secretariat will consider the infection status and mutant strain status of the partner country and take appropriate measures. There was an explanation that it was decided. Even among experts, it is not possible to completely isolate the country, so it is necessary to consider how to promote exchanges with foreign countries while reducing the risk. Trends in mutant strains and It is necessary to take proper measures against bringing in from overseas. "