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Members of the advisory council, an expert organization that advises the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, said the policy to lift the state of emergency was announced, concerned that the number of newly infected people in one of the three prefectures would stop rising. diminish. Recently. “The effect of the declaration is limited. It is inevitable to cancel it,” he said. After cancellation, we request that infection rebound prevention measures be fully implemented.
◆ The effect is at its limit
“If you release it as is, there is a high possibility that the infection will spread.” After the expert organizations meeting on the 17th, President Takaji Wakita, director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, spoke openly about the current situation in each of the three prefectures. Indicators such as bed use and the number of newly infected people are often deteriorating.
Still, at the meeting that day, there was no opinion against the cancellation. Some have questioned the cancellation, but some members commented that “continuation of the statement is unlikely to produce good results.” The effect of the declaration measures has reached its limit, and it is said that citizens can no longer be forced to endure it.
◆ “I already bounce”
In the three prefectures of Osaka, Hyogo and Fukuoka, which canceled the declaration on the 7th, the rate of use of beds has exceeded that of Tokyo, and Wakita notes that “rebounding has already started.” In Hokkaido, Miyagi and Okinawa prefectures, the number of infected people is increasing, especially in their 20s and 30s, and expert organizations express a sense of crisis that “there is great concern about the spread of the infection” .
At the meeting that day, as a measure against the rebound after the cancellation, it was confirmed that active epidemiological investigations should be carried out to investigate the origin of the infection and exhaustive PCR tests, and that the order of vaccination must be changed. The plan is to prioritize inoculation in areas where the infection is likely to spread, such as Tokyo, and prevent the spread of infection to rural areas. However, the National Governors Association is expected to object. Some say it is “very difficult” for the government to adopt this plan. (Chiaki Sawada, Hiroki Fujikawa, Ryo Harada)
