Tokyo to raise COVID-19 alert level to highest of 4 levels: Report
18 November, 2020
Tokyo is getting ready to increase its coronavirus alert level to the best of four levels while the quantity of positive cases in Japan capital creeps up, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday (Nov 18).
Within the approach, the metropolitan federal government is considering asking some businesses to shorten their time again, the paper said, citing multiple unnamed sources. The announcement will be produced on Thursday, the Nikkei explained.
Tokyo authorities didn't immediately react to a obtain comment.
Tokyo had lowered the alert level to the second-highest rank on Sep 10 following the daily quantity of infections had drop from a summer months peak of 400-in addition cases. Because the beginning of the month, nevertheless, daily infections possess trended upward, achieving a three-month most of 393 cases the other day.
The highest alert level indicates that "infections are spreading", versus the less serious "infections seem to be spreading".
Still, Japan is definitely not the critical amount of infections and deaths observed in many Western countries, with about 121,000 positive cases and 1,920 deaths reported up to now.
Testing is also lower, at a couple of thousand a working day for Tokyo, a metropolis with a inhabitants of 14 million.
The Nikkei said the administrative centre would keep its alert level for medical preparedness at the second-highest, indicating a have to boost capacity but that conditions weren't yet tight. According to the city's website, 1,281 patients are currently hospitalised with COVID-19, against capacity of 2,640 beds.
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