Yamaguchi: Urgent need to bolster pandemic healthcare system

August 4 , 2020

Cabinet members, LDP and Komeito officials met on Aug. 3Cabinet members, LDP and Komeito officials met on Aug. 3

On August 3, representatives of the coalition government, including those from its two partner parties the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, met at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Tokyo to be briefed on the pandemic and other pressing issues. Komeito Chief Representative Natsuo Yamaguchi reiterated his party’s concerns for the nation’s preparedness against the pandemic’s 2nd wave, citing the imminent shortage of hospital beds and other facilities for milder-symptom patients. He called for steps to bolster the public health center system as well as greatly expanding the PCR testing regime over the short term and, over the long term, to secure COVID-19 vaccines and therapies.