飲食店見回りチームで対策徹底　「まん延防止」適用で―京都府

　新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大を踏まえ、京都府は９日、特別措置法に基づく「まん延防止等重点措置」の適用を国に要請した。西脇隆俊知事は臨時記者会見で「第４波に入った」と危機感を表明。「時短見回りチーム」を組織し、重点措置の対象とする京都市内の飲食店が感染防止策や時短を実施しているか確認する意向を示した。
　府内では感染者数が増加傾向にあり、８日は新たに８３人の感染が確認された。西脇知事は９日の会見で「感染状況が続けば大阪府、兵庫県の状況に近づく。そうすると医療現場への負荷が増え、救える命も救えなくなる」と訴えた。（2021/04/09-12:51）

Kyoto Governor Takatoshi Nishiwaki said Friday that a team will be formed to check whether restaurants and bars in the western Japan prefecture's namesake capital city are taking measures to contain a spread of the novel coronavirus.
   On the day, the Kyoto prefectural government asked the central government for the application of the coronavirus pre-emergency stage based on the country's special measures law against the virus, in response to a surge in the number of new infection cases.
   "We've entered the fourth wave (of infections)," Nishiwaki told a press conference.
   The central government is expected to make a decision later in the day on the pre-emergency designation for the city of Kyoto and some areas in Tokyo and the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa. The pre-emergency stage now covers a total of six cities in three of the country's 47 prefectures--Osaka, which borders Kyoto Prefecture, Hyogo, adjacent to Osaka, and Miyagi in northeastern Japan.
   The number of new coronavirus infection cases in Kyoto Prefecture is rising, coming to 83 on Thursday. Expressing concern that the coronavirus infection situation in the prefecture may come to resemble those in Osaka and Hyogo, Nishiwaki warned, "In such a situation, burdens on medical institutions would grow, and we would become unable to save the lives that could be saved."