Japan Timesでサイトラ練習Hospital bed situation key for ending emergency, Japan virus response chief says(Feb 14, 2021)病床状況が緊急事態を終結させる鍵だーコロナ相

Economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said Sunday that the government will consider lifting its state of emergency over the novel coronavirus after confirming that the strain on hospital bed capacity in areas under the declaration has eased substantially.

西村康稔経済再生相は日曜日、宣言の出ている地域での病床逼迫度合いが十分に緩和されたことが確認出来たら政府は新型コロナウイルス感染拡大防止のための緊急事態宣言を解除する方向で検討している、と発表しました。





The state of emergency, issued in January, now covers Tokyo and neighboring Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures, along with Aichi, Gifu, Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo and Fukuoka. It is currently slated to run until March 7, one month longer than initially planned.

１月に発出された緊急事態宣言は東京、その近郊の埼玉、千葉、神奈川、そして、愛知、岐阜、大阪、京都、兵庫、福岡に対しても出されている。３月７日まで続く予定で、当初見込まれていたよりも１か月長い期間となっている。





Nishimura, who is in charge of the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis and was speaking on a television program, denied that the 10 prefectures will be placed under a lesser stage of emergency, which was created under the revised special coronavirus law, immediately after the state of emergency is lifted. Eating and drinking establishments would continue to be asked to shorten operating hours under such a stage, in which intensive infection prevention measures are implemented.

西村氏は政府のコロナ危機対応担当で、テレビ番組で話していましたが、緊急事態宣言を解除した直後に１０県を改正コロナ特措法により軽い段階の緊急事態とするようなことに関しては否定していました。飲食店は引き続き営業時間を短縮するよう要請され、集中的な感染防止対策が敷かれます。







“We want to prepare an environment in which hospital beds for coronavirus patients are secured stably under the state of emergency,” rather than taking intensive measures to prevent a spread of the virus in the 10 prefectures under the lesser emergency stage, he said.



“We need to considerably reduce the burden on medical institutions” ahead of the upcoming start of coronavirus vaccinations, Nishimura said.



Meanwhile, Shigeru Omi, head of a government panel of experts on the epidemic, expressed caution over an apparent slowdown in the pace of decrease in new infection cases.



In order to prevent the virus from spreading, “it’s very important to avoid activities such as holding parties and making graduation trips toward the end of the current fiscal year next month,” said Omi, also chief of the government-affiliated Japan Community Health Care Organization.



On the lifting of the state of emergency, Omi said that what matters is reducing the burden on medical institutions and public health offices.


練習ここまで