As the infection of the new corona re-expands, the government is increasing its vigilance by asking local governments to secure beds.
In addition, we will carefully decide next week whether to start "national travel support" to stimulate tourism demand instead of "prefectural discount".
The number of newly infected people with the new corona has exceeded 8,000 in Tokyo on the 6th since April 14th, and has exceeded 45,000 nationwide, almost doubling from a week ago.
The government is concerned that the number of infected people will continue to increase due to the possibility that the Omicron strain will be replaced with "BA.5", which is said to be more likely to spread, and that the vaccination effect will decrease. There is.
For this reason, we are paying close attention to the status of medical care provision systems in each region, including the bed usage rate, and are increasing caution by requesting local governments to secure beds and prepare for the opening of temporary medical facilities. ..
On the other hand, the government says that if the infection situation improves, it will start a new tourism demand stimulating measure "national travel support" in place of the "prefectural discount" from the first half of this month.
However, there is an opinion from within the government that "it is necessary to decide the start time while checking whether the increasing trend of the number of infected people will continue", and whether to start or not is decided after checking the bed usage rate etc. , I will make a careful decision next week.