The Japanese government is now looking into suspending the “Go To Travel” campaign, a travel support business, for a while, as new infections continue to expand in Japan, but Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in a web program on December 11 that he is not considering it yet.
The number of new infections in Japan in a single day reached a record high of 2,811 on December 9, and 2,972 on December 10, again updating the latest record.
Prime Minister Kan is said to be changing his mind due to the results of various public opinion surveys. The government held a divisional meeting on December 11 to hear the proposals of the divisional meeting, and a meeting of the Countermeasures Headquarters was held on December 12 to make a final decision, but it seems that Kan has not changed his mind about the “Go To Travel” campaign. The Japanese government held a meeting of the Response Group for Novel Coronavirus Infection on the 11th. Since the number of new infections in areas where the infection has reached the “third stage” (sudden increase in infection), such as Tokyo, Hokkaido, and Osaka Prefecture, is increasing rapidly and is causing a crisis that the medical system cannot cope with, the panel classified the infection situation in such areas as “decreasing”, “high”, and “high”. The group will classify the infection situation in such areas as “decreasing,” “high,” and “expanding,” and will propose necessary countermeasures for each target group. In the case of “high” and “expanding” areas, it was requested that preventive measures continue to be strengthened.
According to statistics from Kyodo News on the 9th, at least 35 prefectures are asking residents to avoid or be aware of travel to and from other areas and non-emergency outings, as the “third wave” of the new crown epidemic spreads in Japan. Sapporo City, Hokkaido is urging residents to refrain from unnecessary and non-emergency outings, to refrain from traveling outside of the city, and to close all restaurants (host clubs, pubs, etc.) that serve food. At a meeting of the House of Representatives Committee on Health, Labor and Welfare on the 9th of this month, the chairman of the government’s New Coronary Infection Countermeasures Group, Shigeru Oginori, said that the “Go To Travel” campaign is also a “Go To Travel” campaign. It is considered that “unnecessary non-emergency outings” should be temporarily suspended in the “third stage” areas where the epidemic is spreading rapidly.
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