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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Cabinet OK's draft requiring hospitals to offer pandemic care infectious disease care

The Yomiuri Shimbun Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, heads for a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

The Cabinet on Friday approved draft legislation to revise the Infectious Diseases Control Law to require certain medical institutions to provide infectious disease care, in preparation for a future pandemic.

Based on the lessons of the novel coronavirus crisis, the legal amendment is aimed at ensuring medical institutions nationwide can respond to a new outbreak of infectious diseases in a concerted manner. The Cabinet also approved a draft revision to the Hotel Business Law to make it mandatory for hotel guests to take infection control measures.

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