With the new coronavirus countermeasures, the area covered by the state of emergency has been expanded from the 27th.
The government plans to strengthen infection control measures at schools in line with the new semester, such as distributing test kits to elementary and junior high schools, saying that infections in children are on the rise.
In response to the spread of the new corona virus, eight prefectures, Hokkaido, Miyagi, Gifu, Aichi, Mie, Shiga, Okayama, and Hiroshima, were added to the target areas of the emergency declaration from 27th, and spread prevention etc. Priority measures have also been newly applied to the four prefectures of Kochi, Saga, Nagasaki, and Miyazaki.
The period is until the 12th of next month, which is the same as the areas covered so far, and the target areas of the declaration are 21 prefectures and the priority measures are applied to 12 prefectures.
The government wants to prevent the aggravation of "antibody cocktail therapy" that can be used for mildly ill patients by making it possible to administer it in outpatient clinics and intensively using it for people in their 50s or older or those with underlying diseases. is.
On the other hand, as the infection of children is on the rise, the policy is to strengthen infection control at schools in line with the new semester after the summer vacation, and to distribute about 800,000 antigen test kits to kindergartens and elementary and junior high schools. I am doing it.
In addition, we will utilize the large-scale vaccination venues of local governments to promote vaccination of desired faculty and staff, and will call for thorough basic infection control measures, such as not going to school if there are symptoms such as fever.