A meeting was held at the Okinawa Prefectural Government on the 13th to discuss priority measures such as spread prevention, and there were a series of opinions calling for cancellation by the deadline of the 20th of this month.
Okinawa Prefecture will hold a meeting of the countermeasures headquarters on the 15th to decide the policy as a prefecture.
Except for the Miyako area, Okinawa Prefecture has "priority measures such as spread prevention" applied by the 20th of this month, and is requesting restaurants to shorten their business hours.
On the 13th, the prefecture held a meeting of economic groups and experts to discuss whether to extend the measures.
Among them, economic groups commented that "the tourism industry is exhausted, and measures should be lifted on the 20th to turn the economy around, and infection control measures should be taken by targeting the generation with many infected people." I did.
In addition, while experts such as doctors have expressed their understanding of the cancellation of the measures, when the measures are lifted, it is necessary to strengthen measures for children and the elderly, who have a high proportion of infected people, and border measures. There was also an opinion that.
Based on these opinions, the prefecture will hold a meeting of the countermeasures headquarters on the 15th to decide whether or not to request the national government to extend the measures.