In response to the expansion of the area covered by the state of emergency, Nishimura, the minister in charge of economic revitalization, will support efforts in each region to strengthen the medical system at a press conference, and will expand free inspections for airport users from next week. Clarified to do.
Among them, the minister in charge of economic revitalization Nishimura said that the area covered by the state of emergency was expanded from the 27th. In order to strengthen the system, we strongly urge each governor to utilize temporary medical facilities, and we would like to support what the country can do. "
He also pointed out that "every day, there are many clusters centered on people who have moved across prefectures," and departed from six airports such as Haneda, and each airport in Hokkaido and Okinawa, Hiroshima Airport, and Fukuoka Airport. , In addition to extending the free inspection for passengers heading to Kagoshima Airport until the end of next month, it has also announced that it will also cover those returning to major airports from the 30th of next week.
In addition, Minister Nishimura revealed at a ministerial meeting on the 27th that he called on each minister to use an antigen test kit when there were people in each ministry who were ill.