Regarding measures against the new coronavirus, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato expressed his intention to make every effort to prevent the spread of infection, based on the analysis of experts, even after the "three weeks of the game" until the middle of this week.

At a press conference in the morning, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato said that he had taken measures by positioning the middle of this week as "three weeks of the game" and said, "We have responded with a strong sense of crisis. I have to go. "



And during the year-end and New Year holidays,


▽ the daily cooperation fee for restaurants, etc. in response to requests for shortening business hours will be doubled in cooperation with local governments, and


▽ "Go To Travel" will be temporarily suspended nationwide. He explained that he would take maximum measures such as stopping.



In addition, "I would like to support efforts according to the infection situation in the region in close cooperation with the local government and ask the people to thoroughly implement basic infection prevention measures. Continuing to prevent the spread of infection based on the evaluation and analysis of experts etc. I want to do my best to work on it. "



On the other hand, regarding the year-end and New Year holidays, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato said, "Although we are not uniformly requesting self-restraint, considering that the government is taking the utmost measures, I think there are individual circumstances, but be careful. I want you to consider it. "