知事意見踏まえ「検討」　政府、コロナ状況次第で―ＧｏＴｏ見直し

　赤羽一嘉国土交通相は３０日、国の観光支援事業「Ｇｏ　Ｔｏ　トラベル」について、今後の新型コロナウイルス感染の拡大状況次第では、各都道府県知事や感染症の専門家と協議してさらなる運用見直しに踏み切ることに含みを残した。参院本会議の答弁で「感染が増えている地域の対応は、政府分科会や知事らの意見を踏まえ検討する」と述べた。
　「Ｇｏ　Ｔｏ　トラベル」では今後、感染状況が悪化している東京都の扱いが焦点。政府と都はともに、判断を相手側に委ねる姿勢で、責任を押し付け合っているとの批判が出ている。
　赤羽氏は同時に、全国の自治体から事業延長の要請があると指摘。「引き続き感染拡大防止の取り組みを徹底し、適切に事業を運用していく」と強調した。立憲民主党の古賀之士氏の質問に答えた。
　菅義偉首相も参院本会議で「トラベル事業が感染拡大の主要な原因であるとのエビデンス（証拠）は存在しない」と強調した。共産党の山下芳生氏への答弁。（2020/11/30-18:47）

Japanese tourism minister Kazuyoshi Akaba has left open the possibility of further reviewing the operation of the government's Go To Travel campaign, depending on the coronavirus situation in the country.
   "For areas where novel coronavirus infection cases are increasing, we will consider a response based on opinions from prefectural governors and members of a central government panel of infectious disease experts," he said at a plenary meeting of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, on Monday.
   In late November, the government decided to temporarily halt the travel discount campaign's coverage of trips to the city of Osaka, the capital of the namesake prefecture in western Japan, and Sapporo, the capital of the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, due to recent spikes in newly confirmed infection cases in the cities.
   Attention is now being paid to the handling of trips to Tokyo, where the virus is also spreading fast, under the subsidy-backed program for shoring up travel demand. Tokyo was initially excluded from the Go To Travel campaign, which started in late July, because of a surge in coronavirus cases in the Japanese capital at the time. Tokyo was added to the campaign at the beginning of October.
   Akaba also said that many local governments are calling for an extension of the campaign. "We will appropriately manage the program while continuing to take thorough measures to prevent the spread of the virus."