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Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, Nov. 12 (Reporter Hua Yi) According to statistics from the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) television station on the 12th, Japan added 1,643 confirmed cases of new corona that day, a new record since the outbreak, with a total of 113,808 confirmed cases; new deaths There were 8 cases and 1871 deaths.
The data shows that 393 new cases were diagnosed in Tokyo on the 12th, more than 300 cases were diagnosed on two consecutive days, and a total of 33,770 cases were confirmed. Additionally, Hokkaido and Osaka prefectures recently confirmed more than 200 cases that day, and Kanagawa and Aichi prefectures surpassed 100 cases. The number of newly diagnosed cases in Hokkaido, Kanagawa and Ibaraki prefectures on the 12th set a record since the local outbreak.
On the 12th, Japan’s minister in charge of economic regeneration, Yasumi Nishimura, asked the public to be vigilant to the maximum. He said that it is not yet time to declare a state of emergency, but if the epidemic is serious and the shortage of beds and other problems intensify, it will be necessary to require companies to suspend their businesses in accordance with the law.
The head of the Japanese government’s novel coronavirus countermeasures subcommittee (i.e. the new corona expert group), Shigeru Ominami, said at a press conference on the 12th that if the new corona epidemic worsens quickly, the Japanese government will have to suspend subsidies to tourism and catering aimed at stimulating domestic consumption.
At a related meeting held by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government on the 12th, experts believe that Tokyo has started to see a trend of “rapidly expanding infections” and a high degree of vigilance needs to be maintained and the public is called on to take preventive measures. .
In addition, the Japanese government, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee held a meeting on the 12th to study that when the Olympic Games are held next summer, under the premise of taking certain epidemic prevention measures, in principle , visitors from countries and regions with stable epidemics will be exempt from entering Japan. The requirement of self-isolation for 14 days. A final decision on this is expected next spring.
