China News Service, January 11th. According to a report by Japan’s New Overseas Chinese News, on January 7, the Japanese government issued a second emergency declaration in response to the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Japan, but the locked area was Tokyo and surrounding thousands of people. Ye County, Saitama Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture.
I remember that in April 2020, when the Japanese government issued the first national emergency declaration on this, there was a trend of "snatching goods" in supermarkets, large and small, and many overseas Chinese in Japan were also caught in it.
Overseas Chinese in Japan noticed that after the announcement of this emergency situation, supermarkets in many places have introduced measures to "limit admission" to the number of people in order to avoid the crowds of customers and chaos.
At the same time, customers are required to shorten the time to purchase goods.
As a result, the time spent by overseas Chinese in Japan "queuing" in supermarkets has increased.
A Chinese student working in a supermarket told reporters: His supermarket has cancelled the "price reduction counters" during the evening peak period of customers, and at the same time reduced the distribution of supermarket advertisements.
A Chinese housewife described her observation: Last time the emergency declaration was issued, the supermarkets near her home adopted the practice of closing business hours early every day.
This time, these supermarkets are still operating normally every day.
Another Chinese woman working in the workplace revealed in an interview with the media that when Japan issued the emergency declaration last time, she snapped up a large amount of instant noodles, toilet paper and other daily necessities.
As a result, there are still more than a dozen boxes of instant noodles piled up in the small warehouse at home.
A Chinese woman said that before the outbreak, she took her mother to Japan to "visit relatives" and reunite. As a result, she has not been able to return home because of the epidemic.
After the last emergency declaration was issued, the mother and daughter went out together to hurriedly "stock up".
This time, I paid more attention to the more authoritative information released by Japanese officials and news media, and stopped panicking and rushing.
In this way, the mother and daughter saw the message on the website of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry that "there is sufficient stock of masks in major supermarkets", and some supermarkets said that the stock of food and daily necessities has exceeded twice the usual amount. Purchased in a panic."
(Wang Qin)