Japan recommends its citizens not to visit Colombia on behalf of COVID-19

The Japanese government issued a new order that recommends avoiding any trip to thirteen new countries, including Mexico, Colombia, Honduras and Uruguay, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Government of Japan today issued a new order that recommends avoiding any trip to thirteen new countries, including Mexico, Colombia, Honduras and Uruguay, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Toshimitsu Motegi, announced this Tuesday at a press conference the expansion of the list of nations with the level 3 (out of a total of 4) of risk for the spread of the virus, which implies that the authorities advise against any displacement to them.

The inclusion of the four aforementioned countries assumes that most of the American continent is declared an area to which it is recommended to avoid any type of travel, with some exceptions such as Argentina, Venezuela, Paraguay, Guatemala and Nicaragua, to which nonetheless discourage “unnecessary” travel.

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Japan already advised against traveling to approximately one hundred countries around the world, including the whole of Europe and countries such as the United States, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and France, which have the highest number of deaths from the new coronavirus.

Along with the recommendation not to travel to all those nations, the Japanese authorities prohibit the entry to the country of people from 87 countries or who have passed through them in the two weeks prior to their arrival in Japan.

The Asian country has so far registered more than 16,000 COVID-19 infections, with 682 deaths.