Hokkaido and the Coronavirus part 2 (3?)

Cian, praying for school closure. Unfortunately, the stress of his end of year exams has aged him somewhat.

I don't know if there is a patron saint of school closures, but some nondenominational deity answered Cian's prayers. Yesterday, Cian's school sent out an email to all parents notifying them that the school would be closed from today until (at the moment) Wednesday of next week.
Obviously the powers that be considered the immediate effects of the Coronavirus (no known cases within 100 kilometers of the school); past trips by students and staff to Wuhan (none in living memory); ongoing international relations with China (no trips to the country by anyone in the past year); and, ehh, next week's weather forecast (predominantly westerly winds!), so they promptly hit the panic button.
In truth, the school was just obeying orders; yesterday evening the ever busy prefectural governor had issued a request to the municipal boards of education across the island to consider school closures. To strongly consider school closures, which is a typically opaque Japanese way of saying 'close the fecking schools or I'll box the fecking ears off you'.
Sanae's school has also decided to close for a week but in Japan teachers are assumed to be naturally immune to the Coronavirus and so she had to go to school anyway.
More critically, the Haru Ichiban Date Half Marathon has been cancelled! Yes, cancelled!! And that was supposed to be my qualifying race for the Tokyo Olympics. I was feeling in better shape than last year and pretty confident I could get my PB under 1:45, well, maybe under 1:50, definitely under two hours, which would have easily qualified me as Team Ireland's representative for the Olympic Marathon. Which isn't actually being held in Tokyo, but rather Sapporo. Yes, Sapporo. I could take the bus up on the morning of the race - think of the thousands of Euro I'd be saving the Olympic Council of Ireland. But alas, that dream seems to be in tatters.