China News Service, April 30. According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) on the 30th, the Cabinet Office of Japan recently conducted a survey on the country's consumption trends. The results showed that the impact of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the country's consumer psychology is deterioration".
Affected by the epidemic, there are few people in a commercial street in Tokyo, Japan.
According to reports, the index showing consumer psychology is 21.6, the lowest value since April 2013; this index has dropped significantly by 9.3 points compared with March, and the decrease has reached a new high.
Based on this result, the Cabinet Office lowered its judgment on consumer psychology to "is rapidly deteriorating", which is also the worst judgment so far.
In view of the expansion of the epidemic, on April 7, Abe issued an emergency declaration to 7 prefectures including Tokyo; on the 16th, he expanded the target area to all prefectures, with a deadline of May 6. With the declaration of emergency taking effect, various policies in Japan have been issued to require people to reduce unnecessary travel. At the same time, some industries that do not involve people's lives are also required to suspend business.
As of 12:00 noon on the 30th local time, the number of people infected with the new crown virus in Japan was 14,120 and the death toll was 436.