A monitoring meeting was held by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to analyze and evaluate the infection status of the new coronavirus, and experts called for continuing basic infection control measures even after the status under the Infectious Diseases Act was shifted to Class 5. The last meeting that lasted three years ago was on the 3th, and analysis by experts will continue with a limited number of monitoring items.

On the 28th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government held a monitoring meeting to analyze and evaluate the infection situation and medical care provision system in Tokyo, and maintained the second from the bottom of all four alert levels.

During the meeting, it was reported that the seven-day average of the number of new infections was 4,2 as of the 7th, 26% of the previous week, and continued an upward trend for the fifth consecutive week.

In addition, the number of hospitalized patients was 1389, 119 more than the previous week.

The monitoring meeting, which began in July three years ago, was held on May 5, in response to the shift of the new coronavirus to Class 641 on May 88, and it was confirmed that the monitoring items will be limited and analysis by experts will continue in the future.

Dr. Mitsuo Kaku, Director of the Tokyo Center for Infectious Disease Control, said, "There will be various infectious disease risks in society other than the emergence of new mutant strains and coronavirus in the future, and it is important to make use of the experience of coronavirus in future life to become a society that constantly considers the risk of infection and makes prevention a habit."