The government is set to decide as early as Wednesday to apply quasi-emergency priority measures to 13 prefectures, including Tokyo, Kanagawa and Aichi, where infections with the novel coronavirus are rapidly spreading.
Priority measures are similar to a state of emergency, and is expected to be in place in the 13 prefectures Friday. The government is considering applying the measures for about three weeks.
The 10 other prefectures expected to be under the priority measures are Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Niigata, Gifu, Mie, Kagawa, Nagasaki, Kumamoto and Miyazaki prefectures.
