The best timepieces tend to be fragile, but a device based on iodine threads the needle between precision and practicality. The best timepieces tend to be fragile, but a device based on iodine threads the needle between precision and practicality.
Officials of the Osaka prefectural and Osaka city governments gather before going on patrol around restaurants and bars on April 5. (Jin Nishioka)
OSAKA Government officials started night patrols here to ensure bars and restaurants were engaged in “mask dining,” an anti-virus protocol that has caused confusion over enforcement and the consequences for failing to follow the rules.
The Osaka prefectural government has made mask dining mandatory for restaurants and bars under the central government’s pre-emergency measures issued for Osaka city to halt the resurgent spread of the novel coronavirus.
The prefectural government requires diners to unstrap one side of a mask or pull down the mask to around their chin while eating and drinking. They are required to pull up the mask when talking among each other.