At a press conference held after an expert meeting of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Chairman Takaji Wakita commented on the "sixth wave" of the current epidemic. I think it has exceeded. I think it has exceeded the peak nationwide on average, although it varies considerably from region to region. "

According to the materials presented at the expert meeting of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of newly infected people in the week until the 15th is 0.90 times that of the previous week in the whole country, which is the first time in about two and a half months since the beginning of December last year. It decreased to.



It has begun to decline in most areas where priority measures such as spread prevention are applied.



Of the areas to which the priority measures are applied, in 1 metropolitan area and 3 prefectures,


▽ Tokyo is 0.82 times,


▽ Kanagawa prefecture is 0.94 times,


▽ Chiba prefecture is 0.98 times,


▽ Saitama prefecture is 0.87 times, and



Kansai is 2. In one prefecture,


▽ Osaka prefecture was 0.94 times,


▽ Kyoto prefecture was 0.86 times, and


▽ Hyogo prefecture was 0.88 times, showing


a decrease from the same level.



In the three Tokai prefectures,


▽ Aichi prefecture has increased by 1.03 times,


▽ Gifu prefecture


has increased by 1.05 times, while


▽ Mie prefecture has decreased by 0.91 times.



In other areas,


▽ Hokkaido is 0.91 times,


▽ Aomori prefecture is 0.97 times,


▽ Yamagata prefecture is 0.72 times,


▽ Fukushima prefecture is 0.78 times,


▽ Ibaraki prefecture is 0.96 times,


▽ Tochigi prefecture is 0.91 times,


▽ Gunma prefecture 0.78 times,


▽ Niigata prefecture 0.98 times,


▽ Ishikawa prefecture 0.83 times,


▽ Nagano prefecture 0.91 times,


▽ Shizuoka prefecture 0.90 times,


▽ Wakayama prefecture 0.89 times,


▽ 0.78 times in Okayama prefecture,


▽ 0.83 times in Hiroshima prefecture,


▽ 0.89 times in Yamaguchi prefecture,


▽ 0.98 times in Kagawa prefecture,


▽ 0.88 times in Fukuoka prefecture,


▽ 0.86 times in Saga prefecture, ▽


0.81 times in Nagasaki prefecture,


▽ Kumamoto prefecture is 0.90 times,


▽ Oita prefecture is 0.87 times,


▽ Miyazaki prefecture is 0.77 times,


▽ Kagoshima prefecture is 0.92 times, and


▽ Okinawa prefecture is 0.91 times


.



On the other hand,


▽ Shimane prefecture has increased 1.12 times, and

▽ Kochi prefecture, which


has just applied priority measures from 12th of this month,

has increased 1.14 times, and areas such as Toyama prefecture and Nara prefecture where priority measures have not been applied. But there are places where it is increasing.

Looking at the current status of infection in terms of the number of infected people per 100,000 population in the last week,

▽ Osaka Prefecture has the highest number of 942.63,

followed by

▽ Tokyo with 758.39,

▽ Hyogo Prefecture with 628.44, and

▽ Kyoto Prefecture with 591.91. There

are 576.76 people in Nara prefecture, 573.50 people in

Kanagawa prefecture,

etc., and 464.39 people nationwide.