宣言解除、圏域ごと判断を　新型コロナで提言案―全国知事会

　全国知事会（会長・飯泉嘉門徳島県知事）は２０日、テレビ会議で新型コロナウイルス緊急対策本部を開き、国への提言案を大筋でまとめた。２１日にも可否が判断される緊急事態宣言の解除に関し、首都圏１都３県と関西圏２府１県は、それぞれ一体的に扱うことを求めた。
　提言案では、首都圏と関西圏は「都道府県を越えた経済・社会面の密接な関係」にあるとして、配慮を要請。埼玉県の大野元裕知事は、直近の県内新規感染者の２割が東京由来であると説明し、「首都圏は一体となって取り組む必要がある」と強調した。
　このほか、感染の第２波に備えた医療提供体制づくりなどに向けて、「緊急包括支援交付金」の増額と使途の拡充を要望。緊急事態宣言が継続している８都道府県でも、人出の増加が見られるため、改めて外出自粛徹底の呼び掛けが必要だと明記した。（2020/05/20-13:07）

Japanese prefectural governors asked the government Wednesday to treat Tokyo and three neighbors as well as Osaka Prefecture and two neighbors as groups in considering whether to lift its coronavirus state of emergency on Thursday.
   The metropolitan area including Tokyo and Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures and the Kansai area of Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures are "socially and economically close," they said after a videoconference of the National Governors' Association.
   The seven prefectures plus Hokkaido remain under the state of emergency after the central government lifted it for the remaining 39 prefectures last week.
   The governors also demanded that the government increase the amount of its emergency grant to help prefectures prepare their medical care systems for a second wave of coronavirus infections.
   They also called for a drastic increase in subsidies for local economic revitalization to at least over 3 trillion yen to overcome what they said is the biggest crisis since the end of World War II.