Prime Minister Suga reported at the House Steering Committee of both Houses of Representatives that all 19 prefectures'states of emergency and priority measures such as prevention of spread in 8 prefectures would be lifted by a 30-day deadline.
Among them, Prime Minister Suga said, "Due to the rapid spread of Delta infection, in many areas, since July, we have implemented priority measures such as declaration of emergency and prevention of spread, building a medical care provision system, and preventing infection. Thorough measures have been taken with vaccination as the three pillars. "
The total number of vaccinations reached 160 million, the number of newly infected people and the number of seriously ill people nationwide decreased significantly, and the medical pressure was improving, and the state of emergency was declared in 19 prefectures. We reported that all priority measures such as prevention of spread in 8 prefectures will be canceled with a 30-day deadline.
On top of that, "We will continue to protect the lives and livelihoods of the people, further promote vaccination, improve the medical care provision system, enhance the social responsiveness to the spread of infection, and balance infection control and recovery of daily life. We will work on it. "
Minister of Economic Revitalization Nishimura “Mitigation of measures is stepwise”
In addition, Mr. Nishimura, the minister in charge of economic revitalization, pointed out that "if various activities become active after the state of emergency is lifted, the number of infected people is expected to increase," and do not invite the early re-expansion of infection. , I explained that the mitigation of measures will be carried out in stages.