As a countermeasure against the new coronavirus, the government will add four prefectures, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, and Osaka, to the target areas of the state of emergency from the 2nd to the 31st of next month, and will declare Tokyo and Okinawa accordingly. I decided to extend the deadline.
We have also decided to apply priority measures such as prevention of spread to the five prefectures of Hokkaido, Ishikawa, Hyogo, Kyoto, and Fukuoka.