加藤厚労相「９月にも１日１万件」　空港検疫の体制強化―新型コロナ

　加藤勝信厚生労働相は２１日の閣議後会見で、新型コロナウイルス感染拡大に伴う入国制限の緩和をにらみ、入国時の空港検疫体制について「９月中にも１日当たり１万件程度の検査が可能になるようにしたい」と述べた。現在のＰＣＲ検査に加え、抗原検査を組み合わせる方針という。
　厚労省によると、現在の空港検疫のＰＣＲ検査実施数は１日当たり約２３００件にとどまる。外部検査機関への委託により、８月までに約４３００件に引き上げ、さらに成田、羽田、関西の３空港などに設置予定の出入国者専用「ＰＣＲセンター」の活用により１万件程度の検査能力確保を目指す。（2020/07/21-12:49）

Japan aims to boost the number of new coronavirus checks at airports for people entering the country to some 10,000 per day in September at the earliest, health minister Katsunobu Kato said Tuesday.
   The improved quarantine operations at airports are part of the government's preparations to ease its entry restrictions that were introduced amid the virus outbreak.
   The government plans to start using coronavirus antigen tests in addition to polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests that are currently used at airports to detect infections with the virus.
   At present, about 2,300 PCR tests are carried out per day at airports in the country, according to the health ministry.
   The ministry aims to increase the daily number to some 4,300 by August by outsourcing work to outside inspection agencies.