Regarding priority measures such as prevention of spread in 31 prefectures whose deadline is 6th of this month, the government is proceeding with adjustments to extend it in 18 prefectures such as Tokyo and cancel it in 13 prefectures such as Fukuoka.
Prime Minister Kishida will discuss with his relevant ministers to finalize the policy and announce it at a press conference on the night of the 3rd.
Priority measures such as prevention of the spread of new corona measures are currently applied to 31 prefectures and will expire on the 6th of this month.
Regarding this, the government has 18 prefectures in total, including 1 metropolitan area including Tokyo, 3 prefectures in Kansai, Hokkaido, Aomori, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Ishikawa, Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Kagawa, and Kumamoto. We are making adjustments to extend the priority measures of.
On the other hand, 13 prefectures of Fukushima, Niigata, Nagano, Mie, Wakayama, Okayama, Hiroshima, Kochi, Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Miyazaki and Kagoshima will be canceled.
Regarding the treatment of priority measures, Prime Minister Kishida will discuss with his relevant ministers to finalize the policy and announce it at a press conference on the night of the 3rd.