New Japan coronavirus subcommittee aims for fresh start at first meeting

“Up until now, we’ve received advice from the government panel of infectious disease experts, set up under the government coronavirus task force, from a medical and public health point of view,” said economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who leads the government’s coronavirus response.

“However, following a series of processes including a state of emergency, an important issue now is to make both infectious disease preventive measures and socioeconomic activities sustainable.”

Agenda:

current COVID-19 infection situation,
vaccinations,
the system of keeping track of an outbreak and
measures to take to prevent an epidemic in the future.

The new panel consists of

The new panel is composed of 18 members including

infectious disease experts,
economists,
a governor and a journalist, and
is led by Shigeru Omi, who was the vice chair of the previous government panel.

By including specialists from other fields, the government hopes not to lean too much toward public health experts, who oftentimes recommend actions that would lower virus transmission but at the expense of halting the movement of people, thereby harming the economy.

Source: JT

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