大型連休、帰省や旅行自粛を　全国知事会、休業協力金に交付金活用も提言

　新型コロナウイルスの感染爆発を食い止めるために政府が緊急事態宣言の対象を全国に拡大したのを受け、全国知事会は１７日、緊急対策本部をテレビ会議で開いた。国への提言では、大型連休中の人の往来による感染拡大を防ぐため、帰省や旅行をしないよう注意喚起の徹底を要請。休業要請などに伴う協力金に国の臨時交付金を活用できるようにすることも改めて求める。
　会議の冒頭、飯泉嘉門会長（徳島県知事）は「全知事が一致結束してこの難局を乗り越えていく大変重要な局面を迎えている」と強調した。（2020/04/17-13:02）

Prefectural governors from across Japan held a teleconference on Friday, a day after the central government expanded its emergency declaration over the COVID-19 infectious disease to cover the whole country.
   "We're facing a crucial phase that all governors must unite to overcome," Tokushima Governor Kamon Iizumi, president of the National Governors' Association, said at the outset of the teleconference.
   Kagoshima Governor Satoshi Mitazono emphasized the importance of restricting interregional movements of people. "To get the effects of the nationwide expansion (of the emergency declaration), we should continue to send strong messages to the people," Mitazono said.
   "I strongly hope that everyone will warn against travel across prefectural borders," Nagano Prefecture's Shuichi Abe said.
   On the central government's planned one trillion yen of emergency subsidies to local governments, Yoshihiro Murai from Miyagi Prefecture claimed that the total amount was "far from enough."