Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Thursday she had asked the central government to apply emergency-level priority measures to Tokyo, following the resurgence of novel coronavirus infections in the capital.
Koike intends to call for the measures to be implemented through the end of the Golden Week holiday period in late April and early May.
"The areas where the measures will be applied are likely to be limited. We will discuss the matter with the central government," the governor said.
Unlike a state of emergency that covers all of a prefecture, the implementation of priority measures is limited to certain municipalities or areas, such as entertainment districts.
-- Tokyo logs 545 new cases
The Tokyo metropolitan government said Thursday that 545 new cases of novel coronavirus infections had been confirmed in the capital, exceeding 500 for the second day in a row.
The daily number of infected people with serious symptoms remained unchanged from Wednesday, at 41.
According to the metropolitan government, the seven-day average of new cases came to 427, up 14.7% from the previous seven-day period of 372.3.
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