Original title: Tokyo, Japan lowered the alert level of the new crown and relaxed isolation restrictions after 10 months
Beijing, October 1 (Xinhua) according to the Kyodo news agency of Japan and the Japan Broadcasting Association, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government of Japan held a new crown monitoring meeting on September 30 to reduce the alert level related to infection from the highest of the four levels by one level. The level of the health care delivery system remains at the highest level. Experts said that the growth rate of new infections has improved for six consecutive weeks to prevent the re spread of terrorism in winter, and it is required to further promote vaccination and other epidemic prevention measures.

Data map: a novel coronavirus pneumonia prevention screen is mounted by truck passing through the Tokyo Shibuya intersection.
This is the first time that the alert level has been lowered from the highest level since it was raised on November 19, 2020, about 10 months later. The international infectious disease center of Japan's national international medical research center, Mr. Qu Guifu, expressed his views on the reasons for the decrease in the number of new infections, saying that "it is estimated that vaccination has made progress and many citizens and businesses are committed to epidemic prevention measures".
Japan's Ministry of health, labor and welfare announced that as of 18:00 on September 30, according to the data reported by local governments, there were 1576 new crown confirmed cases in Japan, including 218 new crown confirmed cases in Tokyo, and less than 300 new confirmed cases in a single day for five consecutive days. On the same day, there were 42 deaths in Japan. Among the newly diagnosed cases, there are 932 critically ill cases in treatment, such as patients who need artificial ventilator or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation device (ECMO) for auxiliary respiration and patients treated in intensive care unit. Compared with 29, 66 cases were reduced.
On the other hand, the epidemic prevention measures at COVID-19 port of Japan stipulate that entry personnel must be segregated at home for 14 days. From October 1, if the entry personnel have completed the new crown vaccination, the isolation days can be shortened from 14 days to 10 days.
This has been welcomed by enterprises carrying out transnational operations. However, experts said that if the overseas epidemic heats up in the future, epidemic prevention efforts need to be tightened again.
The Japanese government's current port Epidemic Prevention Measures stipulate that personnel entering Japan must be isolated at home or hotels for 14 days. In addition, in order to prevent the spread of variant COVID-19, immigrants from individual countries and regions have to undergo 3 days of medical observation at the facilities designated by the quarantine office. However, in view of the recent progress made in vaccination at home and abroad, the Japanese government decided that from October 1, except for personnel from some parts of South American countries, as long as inbound personnel have completed vaccination, their isolation days can be shortened to 10 days at most, and there is no need to accept the three-day isolation arranged by the quarantine office.
A copy of the vaccination certificate is required when taking advantage of this measure. The quarantine office said it would discuss whether to introduce electronic certificates.