「官邸主導」目詰まり コロナ下、厚労省動かず最長の先 陰る

"Government-led" clogging Under Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare under corona

What emerged in response to the new coronavirus was the clogging of the policy-making structure led by the official residence, which has supported the longest administration. LDP general affairs meeting on the 4th to discuss "Why PCR tests don't increase?" this question focused on Yasuhiro Suzuki, then Medical Technology Director of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. 

The prime minister explained at a news conference on May 4 that the number of inspections did not increase was "clogging." The inspection capacity, which has finally risen to 59,000 per day, is also inferior overseas. After the inauguration of the government in 2012, the prime minister has established a system called "1st official residence. Mr. Yoshii Kan was consistently appointed as the Chief Cabinet Secretary, and the government agency was blinded.

In 2014, he established the Cabinet Personnel Bureau to control the personnel rights of executive bureaucrats. The function of policy coordination was concentrated in the official residence without entrusting it to the Ministry of Finance. In June, the prime minister called on Hiroro Niihara, Director of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, to examine the post-Corona image of society. The fields range from rural areas to social security.

How should the government deal with measures against corona? The United States failed in the division of roles between the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which has the world's most advanced knowledge, and politics, resulting in the largest number of corona infections in the world.