The Tokyo metropolitan government in Japan announced that the warning issued by the recent increase in new positive cases of COVID-19 has been withdrawn. The prefecture also entered the third and final stage in the post-pandemic recovery plan, and aims to finalize the indications of forced closure of premises on June 19. However, both the national and metropolitan governments will still set guidelines regarding the number of attendees at concerts, exhibitions and professional sports.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike mentioned during a working meeting on COVID-19: “It will be a long time until a vaccine is available, so we will have to learn to live with this disease and maintain the pertinent precautionary measures to prevent a second outbreak. ” Koike had previously mentioned that he would consider reissuing indications of forced closure to companies if the average of new daily cases exceeded 50, if more than half of new infections could not be tracked, or if new cases doubled in the period. One week.
Tokyo aims to allow nightclubs, karaoke salons, small live music venues and other entertainment venues that serve food to reopen on June 19. The measure would then be completely removing all indications of forced closure of businesses, so that Tokyo would be active again in economic matters. Restaurants and bars are still allowed to stay open until midnight.
However, the Japanese government has requested concerts and exhibitions to reduce the capacity of the number of attendees to 50%, at least until the end of July. For now, it is only possible to have less than 100 attendees in a closed space and less than 200 in an open space. From June 19 they will have 1,000 attendees, and 5,000 from July 10. Professional sports will resume its activities without spectators on June 19, and may have up to 5,000 spectators starting on July 10.
