China News Service, January 7 According to Japanese media reports, due to the rapid expansion of the new crown epidemic in Japan, the Japanese government decided on the 7th that the three counties of Okinawa, Yamaguchi, and Hiroshima will apply key measures to prevent spread.
This is the first time this epidemic prevention measure has been implemented after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took office.
Data map: In Tokyo, Japan, people wear masks and go to the streets.
According to reports, on the afternoon of the 7th, the Japanese government held a meeting of the Headquarters for the New Coronavirus Response. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Minister of New Crown Countermeasures Daishiro Yamashita, and Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Goto Shigeru attended the meeting.
The meeting decided that the three prefectures of Okinawa, Yamaguchi, and Hiroshima will apply key measures to prevent spread from January 9 to the end of January.
On the 7th, Okinawa County announced that the county’s daily increase in the number of confirmed cases of new crowns was 1,414, breaking 1,000 for the first time, setting the highest record for two consecutive days.
At the same time, the number of new coronavirus infections in the local US troops stationed in Japan reached 254, which also broke the record.
According to previous reports, on the 6th, Toshio Nakagawa, president of the Japanese Medical Association, said at a press conference that the sixth wave of the epidemic in Japan has arrived and that the number of confirmed cases may increase significantly.