In preparation for new infectious diseases, the government has compiled comprehensive measures that include requiring prefectures to sign agreements with medical institutions to provide medical care, and to set penalties for non-compliance.
When the novel coronavirus outbreak occurred, medical institutions designated for infectious diseases could not accept patients in time, so the government compiled comprehensive measures to prepare for new infectious diseases, and presented them at a meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party on the 31st. rice field.
Specifically, prefectural governments are required to sign agreements with medical institutions in advance to provide medical care, and special treatment hospitals and regional medical support hospitals that do not comply will have their approval revoked.
In addition, in order to secure pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, the government will develop a framework that allows the government to instruct business operators to produce in the event of an emergency.
Furthermore, in order to flexibly promote vaccination, we will introduce a mechanism to confirm the target person with my number card and allow some people other than doctors and nurses to be vaccinated at the request of the national and prefectural governments.
On the other hand, it is possible to instruct people who are suspected of being infected who have returned from overseas to wait at home, etc., and to set penalties if they do not respond to the status report.
The government will decide on these measures at the new corona countermeasures headquarters to be held on the 2nd, and will aim to submit the necessary bills to the extraordinary Diet session in the fall.