According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), following the first 30,000 confirmed cases yesterday, on January 19, the number of new confirmed cases in Japan exceeded 40,000 for the first time, reaching 41,485, setting a record for 2 consecutive days.
The red box is a record high area on the 19th
The largest number of confirmed cases reported on the 19th was Tokyo, reaching 7377 cases, and due to the severity of the epidemic, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided to transform some facilities of last year's Tokyo Olympic Games into temporary treatment sites for the treatment of new coronavirus cases. Including Ibaraki Prefecture and Kyoto Prefecture, many new additions in Japan on the 19th also broke the historical record. In addition, Japan reported 15 deaths on the same day.
At present, Japan has reported a cumulative total of 1983382 confirmed cases and 18,474 deaths since the outbreak in 2020.
16 prefectures, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, apply "key measures such as prevention of spread"
On the 19th, the Japanese government held a meeting at the headquarters for covid-19 infection countermeasures at its official residence, and decided to apply "key measures such as prevention of spread" to 13 prefectures based on the revised Special Measures Act for Responding to the New Crown Epidemic, from the 21st to the 13th of the following month. The target area has been expanded from Hiroshima and other three prefectures to 16 prefectures including the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Tokai, and Kyushu.
As early as January 9, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, and Okinawa have been applicable since then. The new application of measures to prevent the spread is Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Niigata, Gifu, Aichi, Mie, Kagawa, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, and Miyazaki. This is the second time since September last year that an emergency declaration or application of priority measures has been issued to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
The 13-prefecture municipality that applies the measures to prevent spread will be decided by each governor, and the "vaccine and testing system" that relaxes the restrictions on the number of people, such as vaccination certificates, will be suspended in principle, but it will continue to be applied if the governor allows it. Due to the restrictions on restaurants, the provision of alcohol can be stopped according to the governor's judgment.
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