Japan on Friday said it hope to start distributing coronavirus relief payments next month, after extending a state of emergency nationwide and ...
TOKYO: Japan on Friday said it hopes to start distributing coronavirus relief payments next month, after extending a state of emergency nationwide and amid criticism that its response to the crisis has been slow and insufficient.
"We think the most important thing is to proceed with this speedily," Finance Minister Taro Aso said of the cash payout, adding the government hoped to get payments started in May.The government's supplementary budget set out payouts of ¥300,000 to households whose incomes have been hit by the outbreak. But pressure mounted on Abe, including from within his party, to increase the help with a payment of ¥100,000 to all citizens.
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