In Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where priority measures such as spread prevention are applied, the city's staff are being infected one after another, so we are starting to work in a distributed manner at city halls and other places to strengthen infection control measures.
In Iwakuni City, where the infection of the new coronavirus is rapidly spreading, 13 city employees were confirmed to be infected from the 1st to the 12th of this month, and some employees are waiting at home as close contacts.
In order to strengthen infection control, the city started a decentralized work of staff on the 11th.
With the exception of some departments where remote work is difficult, staff are divided into two groups for each department, and they alternate between commuting and working from home.
At the city hall, about half of the staff who usually commute to work were in charge of responding to telephone calls from citizens, and the department in charge of counter operations was busy responding to the visiting citizens.
The city plans to continue working in a distributed manner until the end of this month, which is the period of priority measures, and the City Staff Division said, "We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the difficulty of connecting to the telephone, but we would like you to understand it for infection control." I am.
29 new infections confirmed at U.S. military Iwakuni base
The US military Iwakuni base announced on the 13th that it was confirmed that 29 people involved in the base were newly infected with the new coronavirus.
Iwakuni base has not disclosed details such as the nationality and gender of these 29 people, and whether they were subject to outing restrictions, but based on the guidelines of the U.S. Navy, it is said that all will be quarantined until recovery is confirmed. ..