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Article Draft COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
[edit]Lead; Phase 1: Containment
[edit]Article body; On 30 January 2020, Shinzo Abe[1], Abe announced the establishment of the "Novel Coronavirus Response Headquarters" (新型コロナウイルス感染症対策本部), which meets at the Prime Minister's Official Residence and is run by a task force led by Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis Management [2] The initial roster of the task force includes 36 high-ranking bureaucrats from several of the Ministries of Japan. The headquarters acts as the site of Abe's decision-making process on the country's virus countermeasures.
[edit]Lead; State of Emergency
Article body; On 7 April 2020, Abe proclaimed a one-month state of emergency from 8 April to 6 May for Tokyo and the prefectures of Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Osaka, Hyogo and Fukuoka. This decision to go into a state of emergency was made by Abe and the Novel Coronavirus Response and Infection Protection task force. Due to the law that was first established in 2012 called the Influenza and New Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response Act.[3] He stated that the number of patients would peak in two weeks if the number of person-to-person contacts was reduced by 70 to 80 percent, and urged the public to stay at home to achieve this goal.
On 3 April 2020, at 12:00 am the travel ban would come into effect. The travel ban added 49 New countries that Japanese citizens couldn't travel too. Some of the main countries that were added were. China, The United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and more. This puts Japan's country ban list to 73 total countries.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Shinzo ABE (The Cabinet) | Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet". japan.kantei.go.jp. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
- ^ "Competing with Authoritarianism: Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Kihara Seiji Talks Policy (Part 2)". nippon.com. 2022-07-14. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ^ Saito, Tomoya; Muto, Kaori; Tanaka, Mikihito; Okabe, Nobuhiko; Oshitani, Hitoshi; Kamayachi, Satoshi; Kawaoka, Yoshihiro; Kawana, Akihiko; Suzuki, Motoi; Tateda, Kazuhiro; Nakayama, Hitomi; Yoshida, Masaki; Imamura, Akifumi; Ohtake, Fumio; Ohmagari, Norio (2021-10). "Proactive Engagement of the Expert Meeting in Managing the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Epidemic, Japan, February–June 2020". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 27 (10): 1–9. doi:10.3201/eid2710.204685. ISSN 1080-6040. PMC 8462345. PMID 34546168.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: PMC format (link) - ^ Yamaguchi, Nancy (April 3rd 2020). "COVID-19 IN JAPAN: TRAVEL BAN NOW INCLUDES UNITED STATES, OTHER MAJOR TRADING PARTNERS". Morganlewis.com. Retrieved 12/9/2022.
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