Citizens where the state of emergency has been lifted are still being requested by the government to continue to avoid crowded places and close contact with people, as well as not travel between prefectures where the state of emergency has been lifted and those where it remains in place.
Abe initially declared a state of emergency for one month for seven prefectures until May 6, this was expanded nationwide on April 16, with the deadline then extended to the end of May.
The Tokyo metropolitan government on Friday, meanwhile, released a roadmap for the easing of restrictions in the capital.
The criteria for the easing of restrictions on businesses, the movement of people and people-to-people contact in the capital, will require a number of targets to be achieved for specific periods of time, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said.
Such targets include there being fewer than 20 new COVID-19 infections a day, with the percentage of untraceable cases remaining below 50 percent as a weekly average.
Koike also said that the easing measures for Tokyo, if the targets are achieved, would be phased in after the central government lifts the state of emergency for the remaining prefectures, slated for May 31.
The Tokyo metropolitan government confirmed nine new COVID-19 cases on Friday, with the figure dropping below 10 for the first time since March 22.
Following the capital's peak in April of more than 200 daily cases, Tokyo has seen new COVID-19 infections fall to double-digit levels of late.
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