Tokyo authorities have decided to allocate 1.8 trillion yen (about $ 15.8 billion) to help the population in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is reported by TASS with reference to the local edition of Yomiuri.
It is noted that the Japanese government made these payments to the draft state budget for the 2022 fiscal year. As part of the $ 174 assistance, all residents who have an identity card in the form of a plastic card will receive each.
In this case, a condition for receiving money will be the consent of the citizen to use these cards as health insurance, and they must also be tied to a bank account. Thus, the authorities want to increase the popularity of uniform identification cards. At the moment, only 39 percent of Japanese people use them.
Earlier, a professor at the National Institute of Genetics Ituro Inoue said that the incidence of COVID-19 in Japan has decreased after the delta strain of the virus self-destructed due to constant mutations. In addition, the number of infections could be reduced due to the high rates of vaccination in the country and compliance with measures to protect against infection.
