OSAKA: The Osaka prefectural government decided Thursday to lift its business suspension requests on Monday for all local facilities where a cluster of novel coronavirus infections had occurred, such as live music clubs, gyms and bars.

The decision was made at a meeting of the prefectural government's coronavirus response headquarters.

The prefecture also drew up its own guidelines to prevent infections, which, among other things, call for visitors to live music venues to be seated during the events in principle.

To reopen, the facilities in the western Japan prefecture will be required to make a list of customers and introduce a system developed by the prefectural government for the tracking of infected people using a quick response, or QR, code.

"We'll take steps to allow businesses to reopen gradually while fearing (the virus)," Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura said at the meeting.

JIJI Press