: Overseas website
The Japanese metropolitan area will take emergency measures. (Reuters)
Overseas Network, January 5, In response to the continuous expansion of the new crown epidemic, 1 capital and 3 counties in the Japanese metropolitan area decided on the evening of the 4th to launch "state of emergency measures" starting on the 8th, appealing to the public after 8 pm Avoid going out and ask catering operators to close early.
According to a NHK report on the 4th, the heads of the governments of Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa prefectures decided after a video conference on the evening of the 4th that they would no longer wait for the "State of Emergency Declaration" of the Japanese central government. Metropolitan area 1 The 3 counties will take "emergency measures" on their own, calling on people to avoid going out. Officials in the four Japanese metropolitan areas require people to avoid unnecessary outings after 8 pm from January 8 to January 31.
As for the catering industry, the “state of emergency measures” require restaurants that provide alcoholic beverages to close as early as 8 pm from the 8th, and alcohol can be served until 7 pm at the latest; after January 12, regardless of whether they provide For alcoholic beverages, all restaurants will close as early as 8 pm. For general enterprises, the 1 capital and 3 counties in the metropolitan area will set their own epidemic prevention targets, calling on enterprises to implement measures such as remote work, home work, and flexible attendance.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said that the new crown epidemic has entered a completely different new stage, so it is necessary to completely reduce the movement of people and contact between people. She urged people in Tokyo to avoid going out after 8 p.m., avoid the "three secrets" (confined spaces, crowded, close contact with people), purchase and go to the hospital should be completed in the shortest time, and avoid crossing cities or counties mobile. Koike said that the Japanese government issued an emergency declaration last year, and that the epidemic has indeed been controlled after the flow of people has decreased. Therefore, it is necessary to control the flow of people again to deal with the epidemic. In addition, she also called on the railway transport industry to advance the departure time of the last tram.
According to NHK reports, between 0:00 and 20:30 on January 4, local time, 3306 new cases of new coronary pneumonia were confirmed in Japan, and the total number of confirmed cases reached 248,515. There were 48 new deaths and a total of 3680 deaths. (Hou Xingchuan, Overseas Network)
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