Tokyo: The restaurant and bar will be closed early in Tokyo and a dozen other regions throughout Japan starting Friday as Japan expanded Covid-19 limitations because the omicron variant caused cases that surge into the metropolitan area.
Restrain, which is something from the first emergency, is the first since September and is scheduled to last until February 13.
With three other prefectures – Okinawa, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi – in similar steps since the beginning of January, the state of restraint.
Now covering 16 areas, or one third, country.
While many Japanese adults were fully vaccinated against Covid-19, a few who got a booster shot, which had become a vital protection from an omicron variant which was very contagious from Coronavirus.
Throughout the pandemic, Japan has opposed the use of locking to limit the spread of viruses and focuses on those who need restaurants to close early and do not serve alcohol, and in urgent the public to wear masks and conduct social blasphemy, because the government tries to minimize damage to the economy.
Under the latest size, most restaurants are asked to be closed at 8pm, while large events can allow full capacity if they compile anti-virus plans.
The critics said the steps were, which almost targeted bars and restaurants that were almost exclusively, reasonable and unfair.
After more than two years of recurring restraint and social distance demand, Japan increasingly became less cooperative with these steps.
People returned to travel on the train and shop in crowded shops.
Japan briefly relieved border control in November but quickly reversed them to ban most foreign immigrants when the Omicron variant began to spread in other countries.
Japan said it would hold on to strict border policy until the end of February because the country tried to strengthen the medical system and maintenance.
Difficult border control has triggered criticism from students and foreign scholars who say their size is not scientific.
Tokyo recorded 8,638 cases of new Koronavirus infection on Thursday, exceeding the previous 7,377 record set the previous day.
At the Metropolitan Tokyo Metropolitan Task Force Meeting, experts sounded alarm on a fast paced increase led by Omicron.
Norio Ohmagari, Director of Disease Control and Prevention Center for the National Global Health Center and the Tokyo Metropolitan Panel Advisor, said the new cases of Tokyo daily can exceed 18,000 in a week if the increase continues in the current step.
Even though there are only a few infected amounts of people who are hospitalized and occupy less than a third of the hospital beds available in the Japanese capital, experts say rapid gains of cases can quickly flood the medical system after infection spread between the elderly .
more populations are inclined severe.
The soaring infection has begun to paralyze hospitals, schools and other sectors in several regions.
The ministry has cut the required personal insulation period from 14 days to 10 for those who make close contact with someone who tests positive Covid-19, and up to seven days for important workers if they test negative.
While around 80% of Japan have received two of their first vaccine doses, the launch of Booster Shots has been slow and only reaches 1.4 percent of the population so far.
The Ministry of Health is set to approve inoculation for children aged 5-11 which are now increasingly vulnerable.