Tokyo shopkeepers brace for another slowdown as COVID-19 flares

FILE PHOTO: A woman in yukata wears a protective face mask as she walks, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Tokyo, Japan, July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File PhotoTOKYO: Two straight days of record novel coronavirus infections in the Japanese capital have dashed shopkeepers' hopes that business can get back to normal any time soon.

"Before the pandemic, we had customers who came here all the way from Saitama and Chiba," said Sekimoto, referring to regions north and east of Tokyo.Yoshiaki Katsuda, a professor at Kansai University of Social Welfare, said that the spike of cases in Tokyo appears to have followed on from the reopening of businesses in the middle of June.

Testing has focused on the host and hostess clubs in the nightlife districts of Shinjuku and Ikebukuro. "The concept is: 'We'll teach you how to prevent infection and welcome customers with peace of mind'," said Iwamuro, known as the Condom Master for his books on sexual health.Such targeting is a good strategy to keep the virus at bay as the epidemic settles into a new phase, and to stop what could be a severe second wave of infections, said Nishimura Hidekazu, the director of the Virus Research Center at Sendai Medical Center.

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