沖縄も時短要請解除へ　３１日で終了―新型コロナ

　沖縄県は２８日、新型コロナウイルスの対策本部会議を開き、飲食店の営業時間の短縮要請を３１日で解除することを正式に決めた。玉城デニー知事は記者会見で「ワクチンを打った安心感と数値改善の安堵（あんど）感から、感染拡大がリバウンドすることのないよう、３密の回避や換気などの対策を呼び掛けたい」と強調した。
　９月末で国の緊急事態宣言が解除された１９都道府県のうち、沖縄のみ時短要請が続いていた。１１月以降は、営業時間の短縮や酒類提供の自粛は求めず、会食は４人以下、２時間以内で行うよう要請。感染が拡大している他県からの来訪は慎重に検討するよう求める。（2021/10/28-16:00）

The Okinawa prefectural government formally decided Thursday to lift at the end of Sunday its request for eating and drinking establishments to cut business hours as precautions against the novel coronavirus.
   The decision came during its COVID-19 task force meeting.
   "We'll ask that people take measures, including avoiding the three Cs (of closed, crowded and close-contact settings) and ventilation, so that we won't see a resurgence of novel coronavirus infections caused by a (false) sense of security from having been vaccinated and a sense of relief from falling infection cases," Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki told a press conference.
   Out of the 19 prefectures that were under the Japanese government's state of emergency over the coronavirus until the end of September, only Okinawa, southernmost Japan, has maintained its request for eateries to cut business hours.
   From November, the prefectural government will not ask drinking and eating establishments to shorten business hours or request that they refrain from serving alcohol to customers. Instead, it will ask that groups of not more than four people eat at such establishments and that customers stay there no longer than two hours.