As a countermeasure against the new coronavirus, the government will add 13 prefectures including 1 metropolitan area and 3 prefectures and 3 prefectures of Tokai to the areas to which priority measures such as spread prevention will be applied, and the period will be from 21st to 13th next month. We consulted with a subcommittee to create a policy of up to.
The government's "Basic Coping Policy Subcommittee", which is made up of experts on infectious diseases, is held from 7:30 am.
The Minister in Charge of Japan's new corona has added 13 prefectures of Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Gunma, Niigata, Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Kagawa, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, and Miyazaki to the areas to which priority measures such as spread prevention are applied. However, we consulted on a policy that the period will be from the 21st to the 13th of next month.
If approved, the government will formally make a decision at the Response Headquarters, which will open on the evening of the 19th, after prior reporting to the Diet and questions.
As a result, the area to which the priority measures will be applied will be expanded from the three prefectures of Okinawa, Yamaguchi, and Hiroshima, which are until the 31st of this month, to 16 prefectures.