Disaster-related Legislation and Operational Challenges in the Era of COVID-19

Abstract

As disasters cannot be completely prevented, it is necessary to reduce the extent of disasters as much as possible and secure post-disaster resilience. The purpose of infectious disease control is the same. The aim of this paper is to find an approach to disaster-related legislation that can meet these conditions. The paper gives an overview of the disaster countermeasure framework, clarifies the revisions of disaster-related laws and systems in response to a series of disasters in recent years, and discusses the issues of those disaster countermeasures. The COVID-19 pandemic is then discussed as a disaster, and its countermeasures are examined. In conclusion, the disaster legislation in the era of COVID-19 points out that countermeasures for natural disasters and infectious diseases are converging in their content, but their actual operations remain fragmented.