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Passengers descend a flight of stairs after disembarking from a Yamanote Line train, operated by East Japan Railway Co. (JR East), at Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, January 21, 2021. JR East suspended a A total of 42 trains on weekdays and 40 trains on weekends and holidays on the 11 lines, advancing the departure times of the last trains by up to 32 minutes to reduce the number of night passengers amid the spread of the coronavirus, according to the company. .
Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota / Bloomberg
Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota / Bloomberg
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced on the 25th that it has confirmed 618 new cases of coronavirus infection (986 people the day before). It has been less than 700 since December 28 of last year (481). The number of seriously ill patients was 148 (156).
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato told a news conference that, although the number of infected people in each of the three prefectures is gradually decreasing, “there is a problem that we have to look at every day of the week.” In close cooperation with the local government, he said: “I want to end the infection as soon as possible so that I can get out of Stage 4 as soon as possible.”
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told the House of Representatives Budget Committee that vaccines are “the deciding factor in controlling infections. We want to quickly deliver safe and effective vaccines to the public.”
Corona infection status in Tokyo
Source: Tokyo
(Updated by adding comments at Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato’s press conference)
