Unable to accept new at over 500 shelters Impact of new corona

Unable to accept new at over 500 evacuation centers Impact of new corona 20:12 on September 7

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The evacuation centers in each region, which were established along with the approach of Typhoon No. 10, had a number of facilities that reached the number of people due to the reduced number of people being accepted due to the influence of the new coronavirus.

Interviews with local governments revealed that there were more than 500 evacuation centers in the 116 municipalities in Yamaguchi, Kyushu, that could not be accepted again.

NHK interviewed the municipalities of Kyushu Okinawa, Chugoku, and Shikoku about the acceptance status of Typhoon No. 10 evacuation centers.

As a result, 116 municipalities in 8 prefectures in Kyushu and Yamaguchi responded that there were evacuation centers that had reached capacity and could not accept new ones.

The number of municipalities by prefecture is 30 in Fukuoka, 25 in Kumamoto, 15 in Miyazaki, 14 in Nagasaki and Saga, 11 in Kagoshima, 4 in Yamaguchi, and 3 in Oita.

The number of evacuation centers that have reached the capacity has reached at least 514, including 137 in Nagasaki and 107 in Fukuoka.

In these municipalities, in addition to providing guidance to other shelters sheltered from, Itoshima City in Fukuoka Prefecture quickly set up 15 new shelters to bring the number of shelters to 31, and to accommodate as many people as possible. Was taken.

In addition, Iizuka City in Fukuoka Prefecture reported that the evacuation center was crowded on its website and SNS.

On the other hand, depending on the municipality, there are cases in which the residents have no choice but to refuse the acceptance, and there are cases where the residents do not know how they have responded.

Behind this, it is believed that many evacuation centers have reduced the number of people who accepted the new coronavirus infection countermeasures, and the number of people who evacuated actively due to the call for the greatest caution. ..

Immediately before the typhoon approached in Fukuoka Prefecture, 46,200 people were evacuated

In this typhoon No. 10, we cautioned that the Japan Meteorological Agency could lead to record-breaking storms and heavy rains that we have never experienced.

As a result, in Fukuoka prefecture, about 46,200 people evacuated to the evacuation centers established by local governments at 6 o'clock on the 7th, just before Typhoon No. 10 was closest to the prefecture.

When the special rain warning was announced in Fukuoka prefecture last August, the number of evacuees in the prefecture was more than 1700, and the number of evacuees has increased in this typhoon.

A person in charge of the prefecture said, "The call for an unprecedented typhoon was transmitted from the Meteorological Agency, the local government, the media, etc., and it was a major factor that the prefectural people also felt a sense of crisis, and I think that it had a certain effect. It is said that.

In Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, where more than 5,000 residents were evacuated to the evacuation center as of the evening of the 6th, the number of residents exceeded the capacity, so we quickly opened another evacuation center.

Kurume City has opened up more than 10 evacuation shelters than usual and promoted the acceptance of residents because the Meteorological Agency called for the utmost caution in this typhoon.

However, the city's general branch office, which became an evacuation center in the Tanushimaru district, has evacuated more than 280 residents.

This branch has a smaller capacity than usual in order to prevent overcrowding as a countermeasure against infection.

For this reason, the city opened the Tanushimaru Junior High School as an evacuation center about 1 km away from the Kisho branch, and a total of 27 people were evacuated to the junior high school.

Kuki Koga, Manager of the Disaster Prevention Section of Kurume City, said, "We also considered new coronavirus measures and devised to prevent crowding at the scene. This time, we decided to open a junior high school to prevent crowding." It was

In addition, Tetsuya Yoshioka, Deputy Manager of the Kurume City Regional Promotion Division, who responded at the general branch office, said, "I honestly did not assume that so many people would evacuate. If the number of evacuees further increases in the future, , I think it will be a challenge to expand the number of shelters and secure staff to handle them."

Expert “Having multiple choices for evacuation sites, not just shelters”

Regarding the fact that there were a number of people who could not accept at evacuation centers where the capacity was reduced to prevent new coronavirus infections, Motoyuki Ushiyama of Shizuoka University who is familiar with evacuation behavior at the time of disaster said, ``Comparing with past disasters, background and It is necessary to verify the issues on both the local government side and the residents side."

To the local government, “not all local governments can accept all residents in the shelter, and it is necessary to publicly announce how much the number of residents is insufficient. In addition, other than public institutions such as commercial facilities It is important to secure such facilities as evacuation shelters and to use the Internet to transmit the congestion status of evacuation shelters in the event of a disaster in real time. Therefore, the government and prefectures should provide know-how and support in terms of budget."

On the other hand, regarding the issue on the part of residents, Professor Ushiyama pointed out that “distributed evacuation” is important, in which people are evacuated to places other than the evacuation shelters established by the administration, and “going to an evacuation center is not necessarily an evacuation, but a safe In that case, staying at home or evacuating to the house of an acquaintance is also effective.To do this, use hazard maps and other information to identify dangerous places and have multiple evacuation destination options depending on the situation. It is important to keep it."

There were many people who evacuated by renting a hotel room at Typhoon No. 10 this time, but about this, ``The association with the new coronavirus was that it was safer to spend in a private room “Accommodation is one of the evacuation destinations, and rather than entrusting everything to the local government, residents should think about various evacuation before a disaster occurs.”