Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism announced at a post-Cabinet press conference on the 24th that he would exclude the area from the "Go-To Travel" in areas where the spread of the new coronavirus infection is serious.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government held a monitoring meeting on the afternoon of the 19th, and raised the alert level to the most serious "4" (infection is spreading) in four stages regarding the infection status of the new coronavirus in Tokyo.
Experiments with hamsters have shown that the mutant types of the new coronavirus that are currently prevalent around the world are more infectious than the types first identified in Wuhan, China.
Three Japanese economic groups have commented on the prospect of the Democratic Party's former Vice President Joe Biden being elected in the US presidential election.