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Original title: Asking the public to avoid meetings, Yoshihide Suga was exposed to dining with many people.

  [环球网报道 见习记者 侯雅龄]According to a Reuters report on the 16th, after asking the public to avoid meetings, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga attended a year-end meeting on the evening of the 14th. On the 12th of this month, the number of new confirmed cases in a single day in Japan reached a record high. This move by Yoshihide Suga also drew criticism from netizens. Some netizens thought it was “do what I said, don’t do it.” Good example.

Reuters: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has been criticized for Reuters: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has been criticized for “getting hot.” As the number of confirmed cases of the new crown increases, (he) attended the end of the year dinner

Reuters said that while Yoshihide Suga publicly warned against holding group dinners, he participated in a number of meetings this week, including meetings with his governing coalition partners. On the night of the 14th, Yoshihide Suga and six other friends (including senior government officials) showed up at a luxury steakhouse in Ginza, Tokyo. All dinners are for people over 70 years old.

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After leaving the restaurant, 76-year-old actor Ryotaro Sugi (Ryotaro Sugi), who participated in the dinner, told reporters that it was a “New Years Eve party” and they talked about baseball. Another diner, Toshihiro Nikai, general secretary of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party, said that everyone removed their masks during the meal, but they were also careful enough.

According to the report, Yoshihide Suga’s move drew criticism from netizens.

One netizen said that he expects him (Yoshihide Suga) to be infected with the new crown after these year-end meetings, calling him an “irresponsible prime minister.” ↓

Another netizen said that this is a good example of “do what I say, don’t do what I do.” ↓

The report mentions that the Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan, Kato Katsunobu, responded on the 15th that the Prime Minister had taken the necessary protective measures to attend the meeting.

Japan’s minister in charge of the new crown epidemic and the minister in charge of economic regeneration, Yasumi Nishimura, also defended Yoshihide Suga’s meeting. Nishimura informed parliament on the 16th that Japan currently has no mandatory rules for group meals.

According to the latest data from the Japan Broadcasting Association television station, Japan added 3,041 confirmed cases of new crowns on the 12th, which is the first time since the outbreak of the epidemic that there were more than 3,000 new cases in a single day. According to real-time statistics published by Johns Hopkins University in the United States, at 3:28 p.m. on December 16, Beijing time, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new corona in Japan exceeded 180,000, reaching 184,820, and the total number of deaths was 2,587.

Editor in Charge: Zhang Yu

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