Japan to declare COVID-19 National Emergency on 07 APRIL 2020
I’m currently working on part two of my long analysis/recap of how COVID-19 spread across the world and where we went wrong. During my research, I came across this article from a few hours ago. Japan is seeing a large spread of COVID-19 in its metropolitan areas and as a result is declaring a national emergency.
This is a rather big deal as Japan was heralded recently as a country that had effectively handled the COVID-19 outbreak. Either Japan wasn’t testing enough of their population or they misjudged the situation. Either way, Japan is set to declare a national emergency, likely ordering the residents of large cities to stop working and leaving their homes. Hopefully, the government of Japan has made the right decision in enough time to have a positive effect.
