Japan not to compensate companies that stopped working during emergency

Japan does not intend to compensate all companies and enterprises, that stopped working in an emergency situation due to the new coronavirus.

According to the Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, compensation will only be given to those companies whose revenues have fallen sharply." The day before, the government explained that it would provide cash and exempt from taxes firms and entrepreneurs whose monthly income has been reduced by half or more due to problems related to the spread of the new coronavirus.

This condition causes significant dissatisfaction in Japan. In particular, the governors of 47 prefectures at their meeting on Wednesday adopted an emergency appeal, in which they urged the government to compensate all companies that stopped working by the emergency regime introduced since April 8. Along with Tokyo, the system is valid in six other prefectures of the country, with population of about 55 million people.

On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities announced an outbreak of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan. The causative agent of the disease is a new type of coronavirus, which has the official name COVID-2019.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic of a new type of coronavirus in the world.