Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answering questions during a upper house budget committee session at parliament in Tokyo on Monday (March 2). Abe on Monday said that the government will quickly draw up legislation to prepare for a worst-case scenario in containing the spread of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. - AFP
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday (March 2) said that the government will quickly draw up legislation to prepare for a worst-case scenario in containing the spread of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak.
Abe made the remarks at a House of Councillors Budget Committee meeting on the fiscal 2020 draft budget, saying that it is important to focus on the worst-case scenario, including what kind of measures should be taken if infections rapidly spread in certain areas, and to prepare for it.
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