<Anchor>

The Japanese government today announced an emergency to seven local governments nationwide, including Tokyo. For more information, we will connect with the correspondent of Tokyo.

Correspondent Yoo Seong-jae, proclaiming an emergency, means that the situation in Japan is serious right now?

<Reporter>

In particular, in the metropolitan area where the population is concentrated, patients who are having difficulty in determining the path of infection are continually coming out.

[Abe / Japan Prime Minister: The number of cases where infection paths cannot be specified is increasing, and a rapid increase has been confirmed. We will issue an emergency declaration.]

The emergency was declared in Tokyo Metropolitan Area, 7 local governments including Osaka-Hyogo and Fukuoka from tomorrow to the 6th of the next month.

Prime Minister Abe, at a news conference just before, explained the urgent circumstances that forced him to declare an emergency, and appealed for three things: hermeticity, tightness, and closeness.

<Anchor>

Along with this, there was also the largest economic support plan ever, what does it contain?

<Reporter>

We announced an emergency economic measure of over 108 trillion yen in total and over 1,200 trillion in Korean money.

It is the largest ever in Japan with 20% of gross domestic product.

Households receiving 300,000 yen and 3.3 million won in cash per household and receiving child allowance will receive an additional 10,000 yen per child.

Up to 2 million yen is paid to small and medium-sized businesses and individual businesses whose income has been cut by more than half.

Also, the company decided to defer the payment of corporate taxes and social insurance premiums for one year.

<Anchor>

I told you earlier that the emergency was declared in 7 local governments. Then, how is the area different from before?

<Reporter>

The local head of the local government will have the legal authority to take necessary measures, but Governor Koike has asked residents to refrain from going out on both weekdays and weekends.

In addition, we asked for a temporary suspension of business at midnight taverns.

However, there are no penalties for most of the measures, so it remains to be seen how effective they will be.

(Video coverage: Chulmin Han, Video editing: Moo-Hwan Cho)