Japan health workers snub Covid-19 database as PM Suga seeks to digitise govt

TOKYO - Japanese health workers are snubbing the government's real-time Covid-19 database introduced in the middle of the pandemic to better deal with outbreaks, pointing to hurdles for the new prime minister's goal of digitising the government.

Respondents complained that the system is too time consuming to use or duplicated work that they still have to do with paper forms and fax machines. HER-SYS has a"notorious reputation" for requiring more than 120 fields to be filled in, said Ms Fumie Sakamoto, the infection control manager at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo.

Modernising Japan's outdated government administration has been a key pledge of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who was elected premier this month.The pandemic has spotlighted those problems, with bureaucratic hang-ups slowing stimulus checks to the public and infection data that are often delayed or inconsistent between regions.

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