Gov. Yuriko Koike on Friday said Tokyo may need to declare its own state of emergency after announcing a record-breaking 463 coronavirus cases.
“Tokyo is reaching a point where a state of emergency could become the best way to respond,” Koike said at a news conference Friday. “We need to do everything possible to avoid that scenario.”
The governor did not put forward criteria or tangible figures to serve as a threshold for the emergency, nor did she clarify whether she intends to issue fresh closure requests to businesses and schools.