Yokohama National University has decided to cancel the entrance ceremony in 2021.In order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, it was judged that the infection situation in Kanagawa prefecture, where the university is located, is unpredictable while the state of emergency has been declared.
According to Yokohama National University, the entrance ceremony was scheduled to be held on April 4.However, although the number of newly infected people of the new corona is declining, it is showing a tendency to stop declining, and there are still concerns about the spread of mutant strains such as British strains and South African strains.
Yuichi Hasebe, President of Yokohama National University, said, "I think I was looking forward to the entrance ceremony, which will be a new start in my life. I am calling on the homepage.The graduation ceremony will be held on March 3th at the Tokiwadai campus in a distributed manner for each faculty and graduate school.
According to Kanagawa Prefecture, more than 4 people infected with the new coronavirus have been confirmed in the prefecture, and about 6,000 infected people per day have been found from the end of February to the beginning of March when the second state of emergency is being announced. ..Kanagawa Prefecture sees the current situation as a stage 2 level that meets the requirements for declaring the declaration, but there are days when the number of newly infected people will increase slightly from the previous week, and the situation is still unpredictable.
reference:[Yokohama National University] Cancellation of the entrance ceremony for the XNUMXrd year of Reiwa
