China News Service, January 6th. Kyodo News reported that Nishiura Hiroshi, a professor at Kyoto University in Japan, recently compiled estimates and said that if the new crown epidemic is spreading rapidly in the metropolitan area, an emergency declaration is issued, even if it is similar to the 2020 declaration. The current severe measures will take about two months to reduce the number of newly infected people in Tokyo to less than 100 in a single day.
The picture shows people crossing the street in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Lu Shaowei
According to reports, on January 5, 2021 local time, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga stated that taking into account the epidemic situation in the metropolitan area where Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, and Kanagawa are located, he will decide whether to respond to the above 4 on the 7th local time. Make a decision by issuing an emergency declaration.
On the same day, the Japanese Government’s New Coronavirus Infection Response Team also issued urgent recommendations, stating that “the metropolitan area where Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, and Kanagawa are located has reached the point where it needs to be equivalent to the fourth phase (outbreak-type expansion) of countermeasures.” , Requiring measures such as the implementation of 70% telecommuting in administrative agencies and large enterprises and tightening the conditions for holding events.
Officials said that the government plans to keep the statement for about a month, adding that the statement is expected to take effect on January 7 or 8 local time.