According to the sources, the panel made their assessment that the emergency period should be extended for at least one month beyond the current deadline of May 6, with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe likely to announce the extension formally on Monday.
He added that the experts said that restrictions could not be eased until people further reduce contact with each other to a level at which the spread of the virus drops to a certain level. "If the request for behavioral change is relaxed before we see a sufficient reduction in cases, the chances are that we will see an expansion phase again and efforts made by each person will go down the drain," Nishimura said.
The government has expressed its fears that people traveling during the holidays will spread the virus to rural areas and seasonal holiday hotspots in Japan. Such a scenario would overwhelm an already strained healthcare system, and could be the start of a second wave of infections across Japan or the catalyst behind a serious number of clustered infections that will be hard to trace, government officials have said.
The panel's recommendations and Abe's likely extending the national state of emergency next week come as the health ministry and local authorities said Friday evening that coronavirus cases in Japan increased by 261 to 14,566. In Tokyo, the epicenter of Japan's outbreak, the number of COVID-19 cases has increased to 4,317 confirmed infections, accounting for more than one-third of all COVID-19 cases across the nation, followed by Osaka Prefecture with 1,639 infections.
v used 2 know that japanese r very discipline type n now they-re in extended measure. v msian already crash mode on 4/5/2020, v msian always said, relaklah bro, tarak apapun, gabralah lu, letihlah, jom tehtarik, etc. i hope v dont waste this pass 40days quarantine and restart mco
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