４都県の休業要請検討　感染状況次第で―西村再生相

　西村康稔経済再生担当相は１２日の記者会見で、東京、神奈川、埼玉、千葉の４都県で新型コロナウイルスの感染者が増加傾向にあることを受け、対策を強化するため、今後の状況次第で４都県に新型コロナ対策の特別措置法に基づく休業要請を求める考えを示した。
　西村氏は「東京で遊べないなら３県に行くということにならないよう、首都圏一体で取り組むことも大事だ。感染状況を見ながら休業要請も考えなければいけない」と語った。
　これに関連し、埼玉県が感染対策の不十分な飲食店へ特措法に基づく休業要請に踏み切る方針を決めたことについて「有効な手段だ」と評価。東京都でのホストクラブなどに対するＰＣＲ検査拡大とも合わせ、「こうしたことをサポートしながら、さまざまな検討をしたい」と述べた。（2020/07/12-18:31）

The Japanese government may ask Tokyo and its neighboring prefectures of Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba to make business suspension requests depending on the extent of the new coronavirus outbreak there, economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said Sunday.
   "To avoid a situation where people flow into the three prefectures if they cannot play in Tokyo, it would be important for the whole Tokyo metropolitan area to take steps in an integrated manner," Nishimura, who is in charge of the central government's response to the virus crisis, told a press conference. "We have to think about business suspension requests as we monitor the infection situation."
   The minister was referring to business suspension requests prefectural governors are entitled to make based on Article 24 of the revised special measures law to fight new strains of influenza, which now covers the novel coronavirus.
   His remarks came as the central government studies ways to strengthen preventive measures to tackle the recent increase of COVID-19 cases in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
   The prefectural government of Saitama, north of Tokyo, decided Saturday to make a business suspension request based on the article from Monday to restaurants offering hospitality services without taking adequate prevention measures.