Japan expands emergency declaration to all provinces until May 6 - April 16, 2020

[Gert van der Hoek]

This Japanese Island Lifted Its Coronavirus Lockdown Too Soon and Became a Warning to the World

april 24 , 2020

Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido offers a grim lesson in the next phase of the battle against COVID-19. It acted quickly and contained an early outbreak of the coronavirus with a 3-week lockdown. But, when the governor lifted restrictions, a second wave of infections hit even harder. Twenty-six days later, the island was forced back into lockdown.

A doctor who helped coordinate the government response says he wishes they’d done things differently. “Now I regret it, we should not have lifted the first state of emergency,” Dr. Kiyoshi Nagase, chairman of the Hokkaido Medical Association, tells TIME.

Hokkaido’s story is a sobering reality check for leaders across the world as they consider easing coronavirus lockdowns: Experts say restrictions were lifted too quickly and too soon because of pressure from local businesses, coupled with a false sense of security in its declining infection rate.

[sharon sanders]

Expanding “Emergency Declaration” coverage nationwide until May 6 New Corona

April 16, 2020 20:31New coronavirus


Regarding the “Emergency Declaration” based on the Act on Special Measures against New Coronaviruses, the government has been spreading infections outside the seven prefectures such as Tokyo at the countermeasures headquarters that opened on the 16th. , Decided to expand the target area nationwide.


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