As a measure against the new coronavirus, the government will raise the cooperation fee to a maximum of 1.8 million yen per month when restaurants in 11 prefectures that have declared a state of emergency shorten their business hours. We have decided to spend a total of more than 740 billion yen from the reserve fund.
This year, the government has posted 11.5 trillion yen as a "reserve fund" that can be used without the approval of the Diet as a response to the new coronavirus.
At the Cabinet meeting on the 15th, we decided to spend 741.7 billion yen from 6.4 trillion yen, which has not yet been decided on how to use it.
This is a maximum of 60,000 yen per day, per month when restaurants in 11 prefectures that have declared a state of emergency respond to a request to shorten business hours by 8:00 pm It will be used for expenses such as raising it to 1.8 million yen.
The government has included 5 trillion yen as a reserve fund for the new corona in the new fiscal year budget, and wants to respond flexibly to the situation of infection.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aso "Compensation is necessary"
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aso said at a press conference after the Cabinet meeting on the 15th that he decided to spend additional money from this year's reserve fund as a cost to expand cooperation money for restaurants. It has fallen sharply and we need compensation for it. We will continue to do our best to deal with infectious diseases. "