China News Network, May 5 According to Japanese media reports, from May 8, Japan will lower the positioning of new coronavirus infectious diseases in the "Infectious Diseases Law" to the same "5 categories" as seasonal influenza, and the government countermeasure headquarters will also be canceled.
According to Japan's Kyodo News Agency, after the new crown positioning is lowered, the Japanese government will no longer require epidemic prevention measures uniformly, but will be judged by individuals and units.
Infographic: A truck equipped with a coronavirus prevention screen drives past the Shibuya intersection in Tokyo.
Specifically, epidemic prevention measures will change from a mechanism required and intervened by the administrative department in accordance with the law to a way in which individuals are basically autonomous. The Japanese government has abolished the basic response policy, and the guidelines for different industries will be abolished and left to the discretion of each unit.
In addition, the requirement to avoid going out and targeting close contacts will also be abolished. Previously, the number of infected people was announced every day, and after adjustment, the designated medical institutions will summarize the report for a week and publish it once a week.
The medical care provision system will also be changed from a limited medical institution to a routine response at a wide range of medical institutions, and the hospitalization coordination work previously handled by the administrative department will in principle be carried out between hospitals.
Japanese media said that the new crown countermeasures, which took more than 3 years, have changed from "emergencies" to "usual" responses. However, fears of a "ninth wave" of the epidemic remain, and the Japanese government still needs to take a cautious approach after the downward adjustment of the new crown positioning to avoid medical emergencies and a sharp increase in deaths when the epidemic spreads.
On the 5th of this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the new crown epidemic no longer constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern". WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was time for countries to transition the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic from emergency mode to the same stage as managing other infectious diseases.
According to Kyodo News, the number of new crown infections in Japan totaled 3300 million and more than 7,<> deaths. Some experts expressed their opinion that in the future, there will be a ninth wave of the epidemic, and "the possibility of exceeding the eighth wave still exists".