In China, a large holiday will start on the 11th to coincide with the Chinese New Year's Spring Festival.
As a measure against the new coronavirus, people are calling for homecoming and refraining from traveling, and it seems that it will be an unusual consecutive holiday.
In China, which celebrates the New Year with the lunar calendar, there will be a long holiday of 11 to 7 days to coincide with the Chinese New Year on the 12th.
In order to prevent the spread of the infection, the Chinese government is calling for refraining from returning home and traveling, and is taking strict measures such as requiring people returning to rural areas to carry out PCR tests in advance.
The government estimates that the total number of people moving during the 40 days before and after the Chinese New Year is more than 1.1 billion, a decrease of more than 60% compared to two years before the spread of the infection.
In addition, overseas tourism has almost stopped, and no passengers were seen at the international terminal at the airport in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, on the 10th.
The state-owned China Central Television is calling for migrant workers staying in urban areas to cooperate in infection control by telling them how they interact with children and parents left in rural areas via video calls.
In China, the number of infected people increased temporarily last month, but the number of infected people in Japan, excluding those arriving from overseas, has been less than 10 per day for the past week.
However, the Chinese government is nervous about the infection situation, partly because one of the most important political dates, the National People's Congress, is scheduled to be held next month.