Approved by the Government Policy Subcommittee to Expand the Targets of "Declaration" and "Priority Measures"

A subcommittee created by experts to combat the new corona virus has added seven prefectures, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Shizuoka, Kyoto, Hyogo, and Fukuoka, to the target areas of the emergency declaration, and the period will start from 20th this month to next month. I accepted the government policy of 12th.

In addition, during the same period, priority measures such as spread prevention will be newly applied to 10 prefectures of Miyagi, Yamanashi, Toyama, Gifu, Mie, Okayama, Hiroshima, Kagawa, Ehime, and Kagoshima, and in line with this, until 31st of this month. Has also accepted the declaration of the deadline of 6 prefectures and the policy of extending the priority measures of 6 prefectures.