大阪府、大型連休まで休校延長　主催イベントも同期間自粛

　大阪府は２日の新型コロナウイルス対策本部会議で、感染拡大防止のために実施している高校や特別支援学校など府立学校の休校を５月６日まで延長することを決めた。府主催イベントなども同じ期間自粛を続ける。吉村洋文知事は会議終了後、記者団に「感染者数も増えているし、陽性者率も増えている大阪だから、学校休校は維持すべきだろう」と述べた。
　休校延長の理由については、国の専門家会議で大阪が「感染拡大警戒地域」に当たるとされたことや、学校現場から不安の声が多く上がっていることなどを挙げた。（2020/04/02-23:13）

The prefectural government of Osaka, western Japan, decided Thursday to extend the closures of high schools and special-needs schools run by the prefecture until May 6, the final day of the Golden Week holiday period, to prevent the further spread of the novel coronavirus.
   It will also continue to refrain from holding prefectural government-sponsored events through the same day. The decisions were made at a meeting of the prefecture's task force on the fight against the coronavirus.
   "The school closures should be kept in place as the number of infected people and the proportion of those testing positive for the virus are increasing in the prefecture," Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura told reporters after the meeting.
   Yoshimura also noted that a panel of experts under the Japanese government has designated Osaka as one of areas with a spike in infections and that many school-related people in the prefecture are worried about the virus situation.
   Meanwhile, the prefectural government will have students attend schools once or twice a week during the closure period to assign homework and check their health conditions.