COVID-19

The top priority here in Japan is to prevent the new corona virus, named COVID-19, from spreading. So, last Friday, Japan PM, Abe has declared that school would be closed from March 2 for the time being.

My three kids are happy because they do not have to go to school, which would keep my wife busier. As far as I am concerned, this condition is unlikely to make me busy as a doctor in a major hospital because almost all conferences and meetings are being cancelled.

At first, I thought the outbreak would end soon, but the outbreak is going worse all over the world. It seems like the COVID-19 is somehow different from SARS or MARS.

I am really looking forward to the day when I could say, "the worst is over and the end is yet to come."