Denny in the News: 9 September 2021
Okinawa’s governor: relaxing the Declaration “difficult,” meeting today on extending the State of Emergency countermeasures On 8 September, Okinawa Prefecture, foreseeing the national government’s plan to once more extend the Covid-19 State of Emergency Declaration after 12 September, opened a meeting of executive staff at the Prefectural Office to discuss its response. After the meeting, Governor Denny Tamaki reported, “At the headquarters meeting for countermeasures for 9 September, we discussed our strategy (for after 12 September). We met today to analyze the situation and hear reports in advance.” Just now, the National Government’s plan is to formulate a policy on 9 September for the extension of the Declaration that it will mandate to 21 prefectures. At a meeting on 2 September, Governor Tamaki indicated his way of looking at the relaxation of the Declaration on 12 September, “It will be difficult!” Original article: Ryukyu Shimpo, published 9 September 2021 at 09:59 https://new...