In Order to Prevent the Spread of Infection
An Appeal to the Residents of Nara Prefecture
（Updated on January 15th, 2021）
Governor’s comments responding to the state of emergency declared for neighboring prefectures
In order to slow the spread of COVID-19, a state of emergency was declared for the following areas.
・Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, and Kanagawa Prefectures (Jan. 8th – Feb. 7th)
・Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Aichi, Gifu, Fukuoka, and Tochigi Prefectures (Jan. 14th – Feb. 7th)
Following the policy of “Identifying those with the virus as early as possible, immediately putting them in isolation, and providing all of them with either treatment in hospital or recuperation at hotels,” Nara Prefecture is striving to contain the further spread of infection, as well as to prevent patients from developing serious conditions.
Please continue to bear the following in mind and act accordingly.
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・ Please avoid non-urgent or non-essential visits to the areas under the state of emergency.
・When visiting the state-of-emergency areas (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo Prefectures, etc.) for work, school, or other purposes, please avoid visiting places with a high risk of infection.
・Even at home, please be very careful not to spread or catch the virus.
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・A Request to the Residentsin Nara Prefecture Based On the Recent Situation Involving COVID-19 in Nara（November 11th）
・The ten points you should “now” know about COVID-19 as of October, 2020
・Important things you should keep in mind in order not to contract or spread COVID-19 further
Harassment or discrimination against healthcare workers, infected individuals
or their family members is extremely intolerable.
Protect the lives of yourself and the people around you from infection by carefully practicing precautions
to prevent catching and spreading the virus.
○Strictly practice precautions against the catching and spreading of the disease.
Please practice the following three essential steps.
（1）Wash/disinfect your hands thoroughly
・When you come home, wash your hands and face first and then take a shower and change your clothes as soon as possible.
・Wash your hands carefully with soap and water for 30 seconds.
・After washing, dry your hands well with a clean towel or a paper towel.
※ When you touch your eyes, mouth or nose with your virus infected hands, the viruses will stick to membrane cells and go into them and multiply. It is said that while viruses can go through the membrane, they cannot penetrate healthy skin but just remain on its surface. Washing with soap is effective as the soap can dissolve the outer envelope of the virus.
（2）Maintain a 2m (minimum 1m) distance
・When you talk with someone, avoid facing each other directly.
・Even without symptoms, wear a mask, practice cough etiquette, and frequently maintain good ventilation indoors.
※Beware of heatstroke when you wear a mask in hot and humid weather. Hydrate yourself more often than usual.
（To prevent heat stroke, take off your mask when you are outdoors and stay 2m or more away from others.）
（3）Do not go out when you have any symptoms
・Take your temperature every morning.
・Rest at home when you have a fever or any cold-like symptoms. Where possible, stay in a separate room from other family members.
・Upon meeting high-risk individuals like the elderly or those with chronic diseases, be more strict when checking your health.
Working
●Maintain a distance from others.
●Ventilate rooms and wear
a mask in meetings.
●Adopt teleworking and
staggered working days/hours
●Promote having meetings and
exchanging business cards online.
●Avoid talking as much as possible when you take off your mask for eating/drinking.
Shopping
●Go shopping alone or with a minimum number of people when it is not crowded.
●Maintain a distance
at the checkout line.
Entertainment/sports
●When you go to a park, choose a less crowded place and time.
●Go jogging or cycling with a minimum number of people and keep your distance.
●Avoid hard exercise that makes you feel short of breath while wearing a mask.
Eating with others
●Avoid sharing food
with others and order
individually.
●Do not attend if you have any symptoms (fever, fatigue, sore throat, etc.) or if in the past few
days you visited
a high-risk place
of infection.
●When you visit a facility serving alcohol including host clubs and hostess bars, please avoid establishments that fail to follow the COVID-19 prevention guidelines.
(Guidelines include: Employees must wear face masks; good ventilation should be maintained; there should be dividers or a space of 1m or more between seats; there should be dividers in front of seats or face-to-face seating should be avoided, etc.)
How to throw away used masks/tissues
●Do not touch them
directly with your hand
(Place the garbage bag
into a garbage can).
●Put a mask/tissue in a
small bag or wrap with paper before putting it in a garbage bag.
●Make sure that the garbage bag will not tear. Tightly seal the bag and throw it away.
●Wash your hands right away.
Seasonal Events (Christmas, New Year’s Eve, viewing the first sunrise of the year, etc.)
●When participating in an event, please make sure to carefully practice basic preventive measures against infection.
● Please do not join seasonal events where basic preventive measures are not fully observed.
● In particular, please avoid events or parties where an unspecified large number of people may gather spontaneously and speak, shout, or sing loudly.
● If you organize or participate in an event, please make sure to maintain appropriate physical distancing, disinfect your hands, wear masks, avoid loud conversations, and take any other necessary preventive measures.
●Please try to avoid drinking large amounts of alcohol, drinking for hours or into the late hours of the night either on the street or in restaurants/bars, also avoid joining seasonal events while/after drinking.
●When necessary, please try to find a new way of enjoying the seasonal events, such as spending time with your family at home and joining online events.