We would like to thank the townspeople for their deep understanding and cooperation in preventing the spread of the new coronavirus infection every day.
　We would also like to express our sincere respect and gratitude to all healthcare professionals.

　By the way, in Nagano prefecture, 1 infected people were confirmed in the week until August 27, and on August XNUMX, the prefecture has a new infection warning level XNUMX for the Ueda area, Saku area, and Hokushin area. New coronavirus alarm has been issued.
　The prefecture has added levels 1 to XNUMX to indicate that the infection has progressed further, and has made XNUMX a state of emergency for the country.The guideline for raising the alert level continues to be the number of newly infected people per XNUMX people in the last week.
　In addition, the number of people infected per day in Japan has greatly exceeded 1, and the trend of spread is becoming more and more remarkable.
　The prefecture says that it is easy for close exchanges to occur and the risk of infection increases when returning to Obon, and we are calling for careful consideration in consultation with family members.

　Even if you are a townsman, as you approach the Obon festival, you should be careful again here to protect yourself from infection, and to prevent yourself from becoming a source of infection and spreading the infection. We ask for your continued understanding and cooperation so that you should be careful when traveling to and from areas where a large number of people are occurring, and work to prevent infection.

　In conjunction with the August issue of the public relations, the town has distributed the Nagano Prefectural Citizen's Handbook, which was created by Nagano Prefecture, to prevent new coronavirus infections.
　Appropriate actions by each of us are important to protect the lives of our loved ones from this infectious disease.This notebook contains the new coronavirus and all the necessary items for daily life.Please use it.

　In the town, we will continue to do our utmost to prevent the new coronavirus in order to protect the lives and lives of the residents.

August XNUMX, XNUMXnd year
Mayor Nagawa Kenichiro Haneda