Yamagata Prefecture and Yamagata City have issued their own state of emergency for Yamagata City in response to the rapid increase in the number of new infections with the new coronavirus.
In Yamagata Prefecture, the number of infected people is increasing rapidly, with the number of confirmed daily infections of the new coronavirus reaching 31 on the 21st and 21 on the 22nd.
In particular, in Yamagata City, which is adjacent to Sendai City in Miyagi Prefecture, which has issued its own state of emergency, a group of infected people = clusters are occurring one after another at restaurants and other places.
For this reason, Governor Mieko Yoshimura of Yamagata Prefecture and Mayor Takahiro Sato of Yamagata City issued their own state of emergency for Yamagata City on the 22nd, saying that the medical care provision system might become tight in the future.
The period is from 22nd to 11th next month, and we request that you refrain from going out and moving unnecessarily throughout Yamagata City, and refrain from going to and from Yamagata City as much as possible.
In the future, if the medical care provision system becomes even tighter, it will promptly request restaurants to shorten their business hours.
On the 7th of this month, Yamagata Prefecture had just lowered its own caution / alert level to the level of "alert", but at the press conference, Governor Yoshimura said, "The relaxation of the caution / alert level and the infection in the neighboring prefecture at the same time I think that the rapid increase in the number has led to the spread of the infection. If the same situation continues for several days, we will have to consider requesting restaurants to shorten their business hours. "