With just hours left on Tuesday before Japan imposes a state of emergency on Tokyo and six other prefectures to contain the coronavirus, the idea ...
TOKYO: With just hours left on Tuesday before Japan imposes a state of emergency on Tokyo and six other prefectures to contain the coronavirus, the idea of leaving the capital, or"Escape from Tokyo," swirled on social media.
"That will just scatter it everywhere," said Nobuhiko Okabe, member of a government panel of coronavirus experts, told reporters on Tuesday."I call on people to endure inconvenience. We should not be hasty about leaving."Several of Japan's 47 prefectures have not reported a single case. One, the northeastern prefecture of Iwate, asked last week that anybody from Tokyo or two surrounding prefectures self-quarantine for two weeks.
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