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Data suggests increase in people in Japanese towns after emergency

More people started going out to towns in Japan after the lifitng of the state of emergency in the country. (AFP)
More people started going out to towns in Japan after the lifitng of the state of emergency in the country. (AFP)
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31 May 2020 01:05:40 GMT9
31 May 2020 01:05:40 GMT9

TOKYO: More people went to town in five prefectures including Tokyo than a week before on Saturday, the first weekend day since the coronavirus state of emergency was lifted there, data suggested.

The number of people in Tokyo's posh Ginza district at 3 p.m. (6 a.m. GMT) was 30.7 percent below the average on weekend days and holidays between Jan. 18 and Feb. 14 before COVID-19 cases spiked in Japan, according to the data collected by NTT Docomo Inc.

The rate of decrease shrank by a whopping 30.0 percentage points from a week before, showing recovery in the number of people in the major shopping district, said the data collected through the mobile carrier's base stations.

Also compared with the period before the spike, the number of people was down 45.4 percent at Shinjuku Station, also in Tokyo, 36.7 percent at Yokohama Station in Kanagawa Prefecture, 48.9 percent at the western side of Omiya Station in Saitama Prefecture, 18.8 percent at Chiba Station in Chiba Prefecture and 58.2 percent at Sapporo Station in Hokkaido.

All these places saw the rates of decrease shrink by 10 to 20 points from a week before.

Japan fully lifted the state of emergency Monday by ending the emergency in the last remaining five prefectures, also including Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba and Hokkaido.

Meanwhile, the number of people in town recorded a bigger decrease than a week before in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, where a second wave of coronavirus infections is feared to be occurring.

At Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, the number was down 50.8 percent from the level before the spike, far bigger than a drop of 39.1 percent a week before.

JIJI Press

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