専門家「再拡大の危険高い」　小池知事、宣言解除言及せず―都会議

　東京都は２４日、新型コロナウイルスのモニタリング会議を開いた。新規感染者数は５週連続で減少したが、専門家は冬季に向け「感染の再拡大の危険性が高い」と指摘。感染状況と医療提供体制は共に最も深刻な警戒レベルに据え置いた。
　小池百合子知事は「感染の減少を確実なものにしなければならない」と述べ、不要不急の外出自粛などを改めて要請。国が今月３０日の期限をもって解除を検討している緊急事態宣言には言及しなかった。（2021/09/24-12:43）

Tokyo faces a high risk of seeing a resurgence in novel coronavirus infections in the winter, experts warned Friday.
   At a Tokyo metropolitan government meeting on COVID-19, the experts kept unchanged their assessments that the state of infections and the medical system in the Japanese capital are at the worst levels although new infection cases are decreasing.
   "We must ensure that infections are reduced," Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said, repeating the metropolitan government's request for people to avoid unnecessary outings, among other measures. She did not comment on the central government's ongoing study on the possibility of lifting its coronavirus state of emergency for Tokyo and other prefectures at the end of the month.
   The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Tokyo came to 572.4 as of Wednesday, down by around half from a week earlier and by nearly 90 pct from the level as of Aug. 19, when the moving average peaked at 4,774.4
   However, some indicators, including the number of new infections per 100,000 people and the occupancy rate of hospital beds for severely ill COVID-19 patients by national standards, remain at Stage 4, the worst level on Japan's four-tier coronavirus alert scale.