今度は飲食店がターゲット　急所を狙う政府、効果は…

Government to shorten business hour for Restaurant in Japan

Regarding the state of emergency, the government plans to concentrate on measures such as shortening business hours to restaurants. Why is the restaurant targeted this time? To what extent is it effective in suppressing the spread of infection?

Shigeru Omi, chairman of the government's new coronavirus infection control subcommittee, cites dinner at restaurants as a "key point" for infection control. 3 It tends to be dense (sealed, dense, close), and you have to remove the mask when eating or drinking. It is also based on the fact that from the analysis of the cluster (infected population), eating and drinking under conditions such as "drinking", "long time", and "5 or more people" increases the risk of infection.

In October last year, the subcommittee announced a proposal that included "short time", "a small number of people", "seat arrangement diagonally opposite", and "wear a mask during a conversation" as "ingenuity to enjoy dinner while reducing the risk of infection". did.

According to an analysis of infected people in Tokyo last December, there are more places of infection in the home than in restaurants. However, the subcommittee believes that many of the unknown infection routes are via restaurants and that the infection has been introduced into the home.

Compared to homes, restaurants are easier to intervene in infection control measures such as requesting shorter working hours. In Hokkaido, where the infection spread temporarily, we requested restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages to open shorter hours from November last year. The number of infected people has decreased.

However, even in the four prefectures of the Tokyo metropolitan area, restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages have already been requested to shorten their business hours by 10 pm. It will be shortened by 8 pm, but it will only be 2 hours earlier, and it is not known how effective it will be to control the infection.

Source: https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASP156J45P15ULBJ00C.html?iref=comtop_ThemeLeftS_02