Minister of Economic Revitalization Nishimura "Go To Campaign" to be implemented in collaboration with prefectures September 29, 20:00
Regarding measures against the new coronavirus, Nishimura, the minister in charge of economic revitalization, held a video conference with Chairman Iizumi of the National Governors' Association and confirmed that the government's "Go To campaign" was not increasing rapidly in cooperation with prefectures. I showed the idea of proceeding while doing so.
Among them, Mr. Nishimura, the minister in charge of economic revitalization, said about the latest infection situation, "It is still on a downward trend, but the decrease has been slowing down a little recently. I look at the numbers every day with a feeling. "
After that, he said about the government's "Go To Campaign", "We will monitor the infection situation in the national and prefectural governments and proceed while fully confirming that the infection has not increased rapidly."
In addition, Minister Nishimura expressed his intention to cooperate in the realization of diverse work styles in order to promote small-scale and decentralized travel, and the prefectures independently said that they would like to reflect this in future measures. We requested that you share information such as the occurrence status of clusters analyzed in.
Chairman Iizumi of the National Governors' Association reported that he had made an urgent proposal to the government regarding measures against the new coronavirus in the future, and told the Minister for Economic Revitalization Nishimura that he had sufficient influenza vaccine to prepare for the simultaneous epidemic with influenza. We called for securing the number of vaccines and implementing an urgent job creation project utilizing the fund in response to the deterioration of the employment situation.