Regarding the third state of emergency, Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Tamura said in NHK's "Sunday Debate" that the spread of the mutant virus is progressing, and by taking strong measures for a limited period of time, the spread of infection will be suppressed. I showed the idea that I wanted to.
Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Tamura said about the emergency declaration targeting the four prefectures of Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo, and Kyoto, "The Kanto region is also being replaced by mutant strains centered on Tokyo, and Tokyo will grow like Osaka. There is a possibility. For a period of just over two weeks, I would like to somehow stop the infection by taking strong measures like last April. "
On the other hand, regarding the criteria for canceling the declaration, "It is not a story that the infection is automatically reduced by the declaration of emergency. I do not know where the effect of the declaration will come out, but the movement of people and the tendency of the number of newly infected people are steadily decreasing. It is possible to cancel it while judging whether it is. "
"The meaning of this state of emergency is to shorten the period of medical pressure as much as possible," said Omi, chairman of the government subcommittee. It is also necessary to support all-Japan. The bed is expanding hard now, but there is a limit, and it is required to reduce the number of infections anyway. "
Chairman Nakagawa of the Japan Medical Association said, "Since the previous state of emergency was canceled in'Stage 3', we invited the 4th wave of this time, and this is what happened. The principle is "slowly and carefully". I think the condition for cancellation is "stage 2", not "stage 3". "