China News Service, July 17th, comprehensive Japanese media news, on the 16th, Tokyo, Japan announced that 286 people were newly diagnosed with the new crown virus, refreshing the highest value so far. The Metropolitan Government raised the alert level to the highest "the epidemic situation is expanding" on the 15th, but it has not taken measures such as suspending operations to reduce the chance of contact with people. It is still not transparent whether the epidemic situation can be suppressed.
Governor of Tokyo Metropolitan Yuriko Koike said that nearly 70 of the 286 people are related to downtown areas such as bars and nightclubs. Nearly half of the 137 people have unknown infection routes. People in their 20s and 30s accounted for 70%, with 196 people. There were 760 inpatients and 7 severe patients.
According to reports, since the declaration of emergency on May 25 was lifted, the number of newly diagnosed patients in Tokyo in a single day has continued to increase, and has been at almost triple-digit levels since July. In the past 7 days, there have been an average of 195.4 new people infected each day, a total of 8640 people.
Due to the spread of the epidemic in major cities such as Tokyo, the Japanese government is discussing countermeasures to curb aggregated infections.
On the 15th, Yuriko Koike held a notice board with an "infection expansion alert" at an interim press conference and called for vigilance. Koike requested cooperation from both the people and the business operators. Requests to control non-essential and non-urgent outings outside Tokyo, and to avoid restaurants that do not take adequate infection prevention measures.
According to statistics from the Japan Broadcasting Association, a total of 623 people have been infected with the new coronavirus in Japan on the 16th, which is the first time since April 10 that the number of people infected has exceeded 600.
Regarding the possibility of issuing a new emergency declaration based on the proliferation of new coronavirus infections, Japan’s economic regeneration director, Kang Nimura, said on the 16th: "Noting that the number of middle-aged and elderly people among newly diagnosed infections in Tokyo is gradually increasing. It will be observed and made. Judgment." He also pointed out: "In order to protect the lives of the people, of course it will be released when necessary."
On the other hand, the chief of the government, Sugai Suga, expressed a negative attitude in this regard at the press conference, saying whether to issue "will make a comprehensive judgment."