Research Article
Changes in the Step Counts of University Students Living in Hokkaido during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Table 4
COVID-19 policy in Hokkaido.
| Date | Event and main policy | Number of persons testing positive per day in Hokkaido (monthly average) |
| January 28, 2020 | The first confirmed infective case in Hokkaido | 0.3 | February 28, 2020 | State of emergency declaration by Hokkaido (ends March 19) | 2.4 | April 8, 2020 | Intensive measures period (ends April 15) | 19.7 | April 16, 2020 | First government state of emergency declaration (ends May 31) | — | October 28, 2020 | Intensive measure period (ends March 7, 2021) | 33.2 | March 8, 2021 | Measures to prevent re-spread (ends May 7) | 61.3 | May 8, 2021 | Semi-state of emergency by the government (ends May 15) | 444.8 | May 16, 2021 | Second government state of emergency declaration (ends June 20) | — | June 21, 2021 | Semi-state of emergency by the government (ends July 11) | 112.4 | August 2, 2021 | Semi-state of emergency by the government (ends August 26) | 399.5 | August 27, 2021 | Third government state of emergency declaration (ends September 30) | — | October 1, 2021 | Measures to prevent respread | 16.5 |
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Created based on excerpts from the government website [ 25]. |