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Governor Yuriko Koike of Tokyo gives a press conference after the spread of the new corona virus = in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced on the 19th that 534 new people infected with the new corona virus had been reported. It is the first time that the number of infected people exceeds 500 people a day, and it is a record after the day before. For the first time in two months, the city has raised its own alert level, which assesses the status of the infection, to the most serious “the infection is spreading” in four stages. Governor Yuriko Koike held an extraordinary interview and emphasized: “I want you to take comprehensive measures for the increasing number of meals during the end of the year and the New Year holidays.” (Sadatoshi Ogura)
At the meeting, Governor Koike set up a panel with “5 little ones” and proposed measures to prevent infections at dinner time. “The little people (Koninzu) stay for an hour and enjoy in a whisper. Divide the food into small plates and diligently mask, ventilate and disinfect. I want you to be very aware of this.”
According to the capital, the average of new positives during the 7 days to 18 was 325.7, a significant increase from 244.3 the previous week, and the rate of increase was 133% in the previous week.
At the monitoring meeting that decided to raise the alert level, Takao Omagari, director of the International Center for Infectious Diseases, said: “If this rate of increase continues for four weeks, the number of new positives per day will triple to about 1020.” . It will be a very serious situation. ”By way of infection, as in the previous week, the number of people living together was the highest with more than 40%, and preventing the introduction of viruses into the home was a problem. As the number of infected people increases, so does the number of older people who are at high risk of becoming seriously infected, and Mr. Omagari warned that “there is a need to reduce the chances of infection in older people.”
