Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said Aug. 25 that doctors in the capital will continue to report all new COVID-19 cases every day, despite the central government’s decision to ease that burden on medical workers.
Hospitals and public health centers are so inundated with COVID-19 patients that they should be relieved of the burden of reporting new cases to the government on a daily basis as the task takes up precious resources, according to a proposal by mayors and governors from around Japan.
Strict rules that governed Tokyo high school students from the color and style of their hair to the color of their underwear will soon be a relic of the rigid past.
Tokyo on Feb. 3 established new criteria for requesting a COVID-19 state of emergency based on the rate of patients with severe symptoms and characteristics of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus.
The Tokyo metropolitan government starting on Jan. 31 will ask public health offices to stop monitoring the conditions of COVID-19 patients under 50 years old who are recuperating at home.