Go To Travel Tokyo is also targeted and event holding restrictions are relaxed Experts discuss September 11th 18:23
The government plans to include trips to Tokyo and trips for people living in Tokyo, which had been excluded by "Go To Travel", a measure to stimulate tourism demand, from the 1st of next month on the evening of the 11th. We hold a subcommittee of experts to ask for opinions on the pros and cons of starting and measures to prevent infection.
The government's subcommittee on measures against the new coronavirus started after 5:30 pm, and was attended by Minister for Economic Revitalization Nishimura and Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Kato.
Among them, Minister Nishimura will add trips to Tokyo and trips of people living in Tokyo, which had been excluded so far, to the target from the 1st of next month in the "Go To Travel", a measure to stimulate tourism demand. He showed the government policy and asked for opinions on the pros and cons of starting and measures to prevent infection.
In addition, regarding the event holding limit, at events such as professional baseball and J League, which are held at venues with a capacity of more than 10,000 people, while maintaining the limit of half the capacity so far, participation He also asked for his views on mitigation measures such as removing the upper limit of 5,000 people.
On the other hand, Minister Kato said about securing vaccines, "I would like to work to secure the quantity of vaccines that can be provided to all the people by the first half of next year."