学校再開、あす指針公表　文科相、参院予算委で表明

　参院予算委員会は２３日午前、安倍晋三首相と関係閣僚が出席し、集中審議を行った。首相は、新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大防止のための全国一斉の休校要請に関し、４月から解除していく方針を強調。萩生田光一文部科学相は、学校再開に関する留意事項などの指針を２４日に公表する考えを示した。立憲民主党の福山哲郎幹事長への答弁。
　首相は感染状況について「瀬戸際は続いている」と指摘。その上で「集団感染が発生するような要件を避ける対策を（文科相に）指示した」と語った。

　萩生田氏は「原則として全ての学校が再開される」と強調。再開後に学校内で感染が判明した場合、接触者数や地域の感染状況を考慮し、地域や学校ごとに臨時休校を行うことになると説明した。（2020/03/23-13:01）

Japan's government will release on Tuesday guidelines on the restart of schools after many schools in the nation were shut as an emergency measure at the request of the state to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, education minister Koichi Hagiuda said Monday.
   At a meeting of the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated his government's policy of lifting its school closure request from the new academic year beginning in April.
   "We are still in a critical period for bringing the viral outbreak under control," Abe said, adding that he has instructed the education minister to consider measures to prevent mass infections from occurring.
   Hagiuda told the committee meeting that all schools will be resumed in principle.
   If infection with the coronavirus is confirmed at schools after the resumption, emergency closures would be introduced again while the number of people who contacted those infected and the virus situation in local communities concerned are taken into account, he said.