[Japon] Japan gov’t experts say 2-week emergency extension too short amid threat of mutant strains
Auteurs : Ryosuke Abe, Hiroyuki Harada and Sooryeon Kim, rédacteurs de The Mainichi, Lifestyle and Medical News Department
Production : The Mainichi
Diffusion : site anglais de Mainichi shimbun, The Mainichi, Japan’s national daily since 1922
Date : 5 mars 2021
TOKYO — While Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was announcing on March 3 that he intended to extend the state of emergency declaration in effect in Tokyo and three other prefectures in the capital sphere by two weeks, the government’s coronavirus expert advisory board was meeting at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Source : Ryosuke Abe, Hiroyuki Harada and Sooryeon Kim, « Japan gov’t experts say 2-week emergency extension too short amid threat of mutant strains », The Mainichi, 05/03/2021. URL : https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210305/p2a/00m/0na/049000c (consulté le 05/03/2021)
Version japonaise : « 宣言延長2週間で結果出せるか 専門家「都市封鎖しかない」の声も », デジタル毎日, 04/03/2021. URL : https://mainichi.jp/articles/20210304/k00/00m/040/309000c (consulté le 05/03/2021)
Photo « à la une » : Takaji Wakita, director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases and head of a panel advising the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on coronavirus prevention measures, right, is seen at a press conference after a board meeting, on March 3, 2021, in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. © Mainichi/Hidenori Yazawa