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Pedestrians walking on a highway are seen through a window in the Akihabara business district of Tokyo, Japan on Saturday, April 25, 2020. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued an emergency declaration across the country last week, allowing local governments to issue directives urging people to stay. at home, although there are no penalties for non-compliance.
Photo credit: Soichiro Koriyama / Bloomberg
Photo credit: Soichiro Koriyama / Bloomberg
The government plans to cancel the emergency declaration that was issued across the country due to the spread of the new coronavirus on the 14th, without waiting for the deadline in late May after hearing expert opinions on possible areas. Although some of the “preferred surveillance prefectures” and 34 other prefectures requiring intensive measures are under attack, Tokyo, Osaka, etc. will continue to be designated.
Discuss the infection situation and the healthcare system at an expert meeting and organize an advisory committee to make a final decision. Economists such as Fumio Ohtake / Professor at Osaka University and Professor Yoko Ibuka / Keio University will be added to the members of the advisory committee, and an exit strategy to resume economic activities will be examined. We plan to review the basic coping policy and incorporate a way of thinking to gradually increase the level of activity in the regions where the policy is raised.
▽ The declaration of emergency situation was announced on April 7 in 7 prefectures such as Tokyo, and the target area expanded nationally on the same day 16. 13 prefectures, including Aichi and Hokkaido, were designated as special alert prefectures. In 34 prefectures other than special precaution, many new infections remain at zero, and among special precautions, the number of people infected is decreasing in Ibaraki and Gifu prefectures.
NHK said on 13 that the government has solidified the policy of canceling the declaration in 39 prefectures, including the 5 specified precautionary prefectures, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Gifu, Aichi and Fukuoka.Reported The Tokyo metropolitan area, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama prefectures, as well as Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo and Hokkaido will continue.
The Minister of Economic Revitalization, Mr. Yasutoshi Nishimura, believes that with regard to canceling the statement, he will thoroughly judge the three elements of the infection status, such as the decrease in the number of new infections per week, the provisioning system. and the monitoring system, such as the PCR test. Demonstration.According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare, as of midnight on March 13, the number of infected cases found in the country exceeded 16,000 and the number of deaths exceeded 660.
Economic activity after cancellation.
After the declaration of the emergency situation, the governor, mainly in specific alert prefectures, refrained from leaving at the discretion of the governor and requested permission for a wide range of industries. As the number of new infections begins to decline, some local governments are moving to cancel their store closings and request shorter work hours after the big vacation. On Day 5, Osaka Prefecture established its own standard “Osaka model” to cancel departures and license applications.Ad. Specific indicators were established based on the number of patients with unknown routes of infection, the positive rate and the rate of bed utilization.
In the interview on the 13th, the rehabilitation minister, Nishimura, indicated that he would continue to request that they refrain from traffic between the specified precautionary prefectures and other prefectures, even if the statement is lifted. He also emphasized that the use of live restaurants and houses with entertainment gyms, karaoke and sports, and requests to refrain from holding large-scale events will continue for now. ――
According to a report by Hideo Kumano, chief economist at the Dai-ichi Life Economic Research Institute, on April 12, he noted that “there is a balance between preventing infection and economic activities.” In particular, to restore poverty-stricken industries, such as restaurants, hotels, and airlines, it is necessary to boldly relax restrictions on infection prevention, which is a “dilemma.” The government intends to prepare measures for the recovery of the V-shaped economy after convergence, but Kumano said that “it will be difficult to recover the V-shaped shape if the economic resumption is to be gradual.” ..
