The pandemic situation now is clearly different from the past. It is essential to implement government-initiated measures based on the characteristics of the omicron variant.
There are now nearly 100,000 daily cases in the sixth wave of novel coronavirus infections. Although the speed of expansion has slowed, the tally has continued to rise, except in some areas such as Okinawa Prefecture.
In areas where quasi-emergency priority measures have been put in place, the proportion of people infected at restaurants is diminishing. There has been a shift in which the majority of infections no longer appear among young adults but among children and the elderly. It is no longer sufficient to take measures only at restaurants.
