全国一斉休校に慎重　第２波対策で安倍首相―参院予算委

　安倍晋三首相は１１日の参院予算委員会で、新型コロナウイルス感染症の「第２波」が発生した場合の全国一律の学校休校措置について、慎重な考えを示した。首相は「一定の条件を満たす中で、地域ごとに緊急事態宣言を発出し、休校も検討する。全国一斉にするかはまた別の問題だ」と述べた。国民民主党の増子輝彦氏への答弁。

　２月末に首相が表明した一斉休校については、「一定の効果があった。その段階では一斉休校を導入した国はまだ少なかったが、今ほとんどの国々が感染防止の手段として活用している」と強調した。（2020/06/11-18:38）

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday sounded cautious about the idea of letting schools across the nation shut again in the event a second wave of novel coronavirus infections hits the country.
   "If certain conditions are met, the government will issue a coronavirus state of emergency again, for some regions, and consider requesting schools there to close," he said at a meeting of the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, in response to a question from Teruhiko Mashiko of the major opposition Democratic Party for the People.
   But Abe added, "Whether to ask schools across the nation to shut is a different matter."
   The prime minister said his request in late February for nationwide school closures had "a certain effect."
   "Only a few countries had adopted across-the-board school closures at the time, but the measure is now being utilized by most countries to prevent infection," he added.