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[Tokio, 25, Reuters]- The government will decide whether or not to extend the state of emergency issued to 11 prefectures before February 7 in the first half of next week. According to various government and ruling party officials, “gradual cancellation” is being discussed, such as extending the request to restaurants to shorten business hours, while other regulations are gradually relaxed. The extension period will be centered around one month and decisions will be made based on the latest information on new coronavirus infections.
Yasutoshi Nishimura, Minister of Economic Revitalization, reiterated in the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives on the 25th that the requirement to lift the state of emergency is to break with “Stage 4”, where the infection situation is the most severe. See 6 indicators, such as 50% bed use rate for corona patients, 25 per 100,000 newly infected people per day, and 500 people when applied to Tokyo, as shown by the Coronavirus Infection Control Subcommittee . He explained: “We will make a comprehensive decision and publish it in stages.”
Although the number of infected people appears to be decreasing in Tokyo and other areas, the level is still above the standard for declaring the declaration. While there are opinions within the government that it is inevitable to extend the request for time reduction to restaurants, the partial relaxation of other regulations is also being discussed.
Many interested people have extended the period to one month. “A gradual cancellation plan that took about a month to shorten the time needed to eat and drink” (a government official) and “If the extension is long, there is a risk that the number of insolvent companies will increase mainly in the tourism industry, so every two weeks I would like to consider the width of the extension, but it is preferable to repeat the extension in a month ”, (another government official), and it seems that several plans are being considered.
In the budget committee on the 25th, Minister Nishimura was asked the reasons that the period of the state of emergency that is currently being issued is one month, and the result of the statement will appear two weeks later, so “two weeks plus two weeks for a month “It’s unity.”
However, the infection situation remains unpredictable. The number of recently infected people in Tokyo fell below 1,000 for the first time in 12 days on the 24th, but Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in the budget committee on the 25th, “(The number of infected people) is gradually decreasing, decreasing. Experts say that it is necessary to look a little more at the situation to judge that.
According to the latest announcement, the number of newly infected people in Tokyo on the 25th fell below 700 for the first time since the 28th of last month to 618.
