{"id":987524819,"date":"2020-07-15T03:39:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T02:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/news\/health-system-measures-in-japan-covid-19-july-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:42:57","slug":"health-system-measures-in-japan-covid-19-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/news\/health-system-measures-in-japan-covid-19-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Health system measures in Japan &#8211; COVID-19 &#8211; July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The health system measures put into place in Japan to contain the spread of COVID-19 are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; On 28 January, the Cabinet issued a decree to list COVID-19 as a disease that the Infectious Disease Act and the Quarantine Act apply. With the decree enforced on 1 February, the authority can order the patients about forced hospitalisation and restrictions on work, mandate immigrations to take laboratory tests, and provide medical care with the costs shouldered by the government.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8211; On 14 February, the government decided the use of the contingent funds included in the FY 2019 budget to finance a package of immediate measures including increasing the testing capacity, subsidising production of masks and antiseptic solutions, and promoting development of therapeutic drug.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8211; On 17 February the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) asked people with cold symptoms, a fever 37.5 Celsius degree or over, a strong feeling of weariness or shortness of breath to isolate themselves at home and wait four days before contacting a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8211; The Basic Policy announced on 25 February prioritised the provision of medical service to vulnerable people such as the elderly and those with underlying diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8211; The second measures launched on 10 March included measures for containment in childcare and long-term care facilities, support for the supply of masks, expansion of PCR testing and medical care capacity and development of therapeutic drug.<\/p>\n<p>-7 April measures and the first and second supplementary budgets for FY 2020 further increased health spending.<\/p>\n<p><em>The published information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/coronavirus\/country-policy-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The health system measures put into place in Japan to contain the spread of COVID-19 are: &nbsp; &#8211; On 28 January, the Cabinet issued a decree to list COVID-19 as a disease that the Infectious Disease Act and the Quarantine Act apply. With the decree enforced on 1 February, the authority can order the patients&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123,124,129,132,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}