米シカゴに外出自粛勧告、コロナ感染急増で１６日から

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】米イリノイ州シカゴのローリ・ライトフット市長は12日、新型コロナウイルスの感染者数が急増していることを受けて、16日から3週間にわたり不要不急の外出を控えるよう勧告した。（写真は資料写真）
　ライトフット市長は「在宅勧告を発し、外出は出勤・通学などの不可欠な用事のみにとどめるよう全ての市民に要請する」と述べた。
　市当局は、自宅に客を招くことや、感謝祭の期間中のイベント開催や移動についても、市民に自粛を求めている。また、外出してもよい必要不可欠な活動として、新型コロナウイルス感染症（ＣＯＶＩＤ-１９）の検査、薬や食料品の購入などを挙げている。
　ハーバード・グローバル・ヘルス研究所によれば、米国第３の都市シカゴのあるクック郡では、人口１０万人当たりの直近７日間の１日平均感染者数が９１．６人に上っている。
　新規感染者数が１０万人当たり２５人以上の地域は、感染リスクが最も高い「レッドゾーン」とみなされる。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/11/13-14:35）

Chicago's mayor issued a new stay-at-home advisory on Thursday effective from November 16 as the United States' third-biggest city faces a surge in Covid-19 cases.
I'm issuing a stay-at-home advisory asking all Chicagoans to only leave their homes for essential needs, including work and school, said Lori Lightfoot.
It comes with Cook County, which includes Chicago, seeing 91.6 new daily cases per 100,000 people on a seven-day moving average, according to data compiled by the Harvard Global Health Institute dashboard.
Anything above 25 cases per 100,000 is considered to be in the red zone, indicating the highest levels of risk.
The new advisory asks that residents remain confined to their homes except to go to work or school.
Residents have been asked not to have guests at their homes, to cancel Thanksgiving celebrations and to avoid travel.
Every single one of us needs to step up and 'Protect Chicago' right now, or 2020 could go from bad to worse -- we could see tens of thousands more infections, an overwhelmed healthcare system and 1,000 more Chicagoans dying from Covid-19 by the end of the year, a note on the city's website said.
The state of Illinois, where Chicago is located, reported 12,657 new cases on Wednesday, as well as 145 deaths. The state's totals are 523,840 cases and 10,434 deaths.
On its website, it advises state residents to stay at home for the next three weeks as much as possible, leaving only for necessary and essential activities, such as work that must be performed outside the home, Covid-19 testing, visiting the pharmacy, and buying groceries.
The United States is experiencing its third and worst-by-far spike in Covid-19 cases.
The seven-day moving average is currently about 125,000 cases, more than 65,000 people are hospitalized, and the seven-day average of deaths is exceeding 1,000, according to data from the Covid Tracking Project.