In Japan, where COVID-19 is rapidly spreading, emergency quarantine measures are applied to three metropolitan and regional governments.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, at a meeting of the Corona 19 Countermeasures Headquarters held on the afternoon of the 7th, announced 'Critical measures such as epidemic prevention' (hereinafter referred to as priority measures), which is a quarantine measure comparable to an emergency in Okinawa, Yamaguchi, and Hiroshima prefectures. It is said that it will be applied from the beginning of the month to the end of this month.
In Okinawa Prefecture, restaurant hours are limited until 9pm.
In Yamaguchi and Hiroshima prefectures, restaurant hours are limited to 8:00 p.m. and alcoholic beverages are also suspended.
In Japan, as the key measures were lifted nationwide due to the sharp drop in the number of COVID-19 cases in September last year, restrictions on restaurant business hours and other restrictions have also disappeared.
This is the first time since the Kishida cabinet took office in October of last year to apply emergency measures such as key measures.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Japan has been increasing rapidly this year due to the spread of Omicron mutations.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK tentatively counted 6,214 new confirmed cases of Corona 19 in Japan today.
Compared to a week ago (506), the number of confirmed cases has increased by more than 12 times.
It is the first time in about four months since September 15 of last year that the number of daily confirmed cases exceeded 6,000.
At that time, the Corona 19 emergency was in effect in Tokyo and major areas in the metropolitan area.
In Japan, the number of new confirmed cases per day was 534 on the 1st of this month, but it quickly increased to 553 on the 2nd, 780 on the 3rd, 1,265 on the 4th, 2,636 on the 5th, and 4,473 on the 6th.
The third dose of vaccine in Japan is progressing very slowly.
According to the announcement by the Prime Minister's Office, those who received the third dose as of yesterday accounted for only 0.6% of the total population.