‘Critical measures such as prevention of infestation’ in 16 out of 47 metropolitan areas
The restaurant business hours have been shortened from 8 to 9 pm… Limit on serving alcoholic beverages
More than 40,000 new corona cases… All-time high for two days in a row
(Iwakuni AP/Kyodo = Yonhap News) Pedestrians wear masks on the streets of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan on the 7th. The Japanese government has decided on the same day that the three prefectures of Okinawa, Yamaguchi, and Hiroshima, where the momentum of the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is strong, will apply the key measures, the pre-emergency quarantine measures, to three prefectures. 2022.1.7
(Tokyo = Yonhap News) Correspondent Ho-Jun Kim = In Japan, where the number of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 is increasing explosively, emergency quarantine measures are additionally applied to 13 metropolitan and regional governments, including the capital, Tokyo.
On the afternoon of the 19th, the Japanese government held a meeting of the Corona 19 Countermeasures Headquarters meeting and sent 13 metropolitan governments, including Tokyo, Kanagawa, and Aichi Prefecture, to ‘priority measures such as prevention of spread’ (hereinafter referred to as “prior measures”), which are emergency quarantine measures. measures) to be applied from the 21st of this month to the 13th of the following month.
Accordingly, the area of application of priority measures will be expanded to more than one-third of the 47 prefectures, including the three existing metropolitan municipalities including Okinawa Prefecture.
In areas with priority measures, the previous stage of an ’emergency’, the head of a local government can request a restaurant to shorten business hours and limit the provision of alcoholic beverages.
(Tokyo = Yonhap News) Tokyo Metropolitan Government Governor Yuriko Koike held a press conference on the 24th of last month to announce the first case of community Omicron infection in Tokyo. 2021.12.24 photo@yna.co.kr
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government held a meeting of the Corona 19 Countermeasures Headquarters on the same day and decided to limit restaurant business hours to 9 p.m. and alcoholic beverages to 8 p.m.
Of the approximately 120,000 restaurants in the province, 85% (about 102,000) are certified.
For non-certified stores, the business hours were shortened to 8 pm and the service of alcoholic beverages was suspended.
Both certified and non-certified stores limit the number of guests that can be received at one time to four.
It is the first time in four months since September of last year that emergency quarantine measures were applied to Tokyo.
It is known that other metropolitan governments that have been added to the area to which the priority measures are applied will also take similar measures as Tokyo.
According to the guidelines of the Japanese government, restaurants certified for quarantine can be open until 9 p.m. and non-certified restaurants can be open until 8 p.m. in areas subject to key measures.
It is decided by each local government whether alcohol can be served at restaurants certified for quarantine.
Large events can accommodate up to 20,000 spectators if strict infection prevention measures are taken.
The guidelines also include a request for local residents to limit movement beyond the boundaries of metropolitan governments as much as possible.
Osaka Prefecture, which has the second highest number of new COVID-19 cases after Tokyo, did not ask the government to apply key measures this time.
Osaka Prefecture, along with neighboring Kyoto Prefecture and Hyogo Prefecture, may decide whether or not to request the application of key measures during this week, Kyodo News reported.
(Fukuoka Kyodo = Yonhap News) On the 18th, a large monitor installed at JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, shows the news that the number of new corona19 confirmed in Japan has exceeded 30,000 per day. 2022.01.19
In Japan, the number of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 is rapidly increasing due to the spread of omicron mutations, which are highly contagious.
According to the local public broadcaster NHK, as of 6:15 p.m. on the same day, the number of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases across Japan reached 41,485, the highest for two days in a row.
It is the first time that Japan has recorded 40,000 daily confirmed cases of COVID-19.
After rising to 10,000 on the 12th and 13,243 on the 12th, the number surpassed 20,000 with 22,41 on the 14th in two days. have been recorded
The average number of confirmed cases per day in the last week (12th to 18th) was 22,672, 3.7 times higher than the previous week (6,118).
Japan’s COVID-19 ‘sixth wave’ (sixth pandemic) is spreading at a rate far exceeding the previous waves 1-5.
The Japanese government has repeated the pattern of issuing a state of emergency, the highest level of quarantine emergency measure, following the key measures during the past COVID-19 pandemic.
Infectious disease experts in Japan are of the opinion that the explosive increase in the number of new cases is only the beginning.
“The rate of increase in the number of patients is faster than expected,” said Yoshinori Yasui, a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan. It was revealed in an interview with NHK, which was reported.
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