In response to the application of "Priority Measures to Prevent Spread" to Hirosaki City from January 27, the city requested restaurants and other facilities to shorten their business hours.

Aomori Prefecture has requested the national government to set Hirosaki City as a target area for "priority measures such as prevention of spread" because the number of people infected with the new coronavirus is rapidly increasing within the jurisdiction of Hirosaki Healthcare Center. The country applied. It is one of the 34 prefectures nationwide, and is the first prefecture to apply it. A cooperation fee of 25,000 to 200,000 yen per day will be paid to restaurants that cooperated with the request for shortened working hours, depending on sales.

In Hirosaki's entertainment district, Kajimachi, there are restaurants that open in a short time upon request, but many are closed. The silver accessory store "GROWTH" (Shinkajimachi, Hirosaki City) will continue to operate normally. The store manager, Mr. Murakami, said, "Even when the cluster occurred two years ago, the restaurant was closed and we continued to operate normally. Since even one customer may come, I want to keep the store open. "

Mr. Takumi Nara, the owner of the bookstore "Mawarimichi Bunko" (Shinkajimachi), which operates in Kakumi-koji, showed his understanding of "priority measures such as prevention of spread" and then "prevents the spread of the new coronavirus." I would like to cooperate, but the current situation is that there are no requests from stores other than restaurants. " "There was a student who was in trouble when he lost his part-time job," he said.

According to the Hirosaki City Commerce, Industry and Labor Affairs Division, the city is planning a system to add support money to businesses that are eligible for the "business revival support money" of the country that accepts applications from January 31st. "We would like to support a wide range of industries other than restaurants," said the person in charge.