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New Zealanders have been forced to wait months to find a place in their country’s hotel quarantine program in the country’s Australia, hoping to return home quickly with the announcement of a travel bubble to arrive on Monday.
The long-awaited trans-Tasman bubble is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2021, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden told reporters on Monday.
“We intend to name a date … in the new year, once the rest of the details are locked,” he said.
That’s the welcome news of a three-month wait for a New Zealand hotel, which can now completely avoid quarantine:
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Rest restaurants, bars and karaoke locations in Tokyo have been asked to remain closed until 10pm on Tuesday, while residents have been urged to avoid traveling outside the capital.
Concerns that the latest outbreak could intensify later this month, as many Japanese traditionally return to their homeland for the New Year holidays.
There is also December Bonekai The season, when large groups of colleagues “forget the year” in alcohol-fueled get-away gutters.
This year, however, it looks like it will be a very definite thing, with almost 90% of companies saying they have no plans to hold year-end and New Year’s parties to reduce the risk of Kovid-19 spreading among employees.
A poll of just over 10,000 companies by Tokyo Shoco Research found that 87 87..8% of people could not organize a party – a trend that has hit the hospitality industry hard during the normal beneficial times of the year.
“Epidemics have deprived us of many traditions of change that give us a sense of changing asons,” an employee of an insurance company in Tokyo told Kyodo. “We lost sight of cherry blossoms (in spring), fireworks (in summer), and now lost to Bonekai.”
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According to media reports, Japan may soon exclude the cities of Tokyo and Nagoya from its subsidized tour program, according to media reports, the country is booming in cases of coronavirus.
Hidaki Omura, governor of Nagoya-based Ichchi Prefecture, said in a TV program on Sunday that the prime minister, Yoshihid Suga, and members of his cabinet were considering cutting the go-to travel, although health experts called for the entire program. Postpone.
The Kyodo news agency said a decision could be made on Monday.
The controversial go-to scheme was launched in July to promote domestic tourism and support the regional economy during the local epidemic.
But concerns that passengers could contribute to the spread have prompted Covid-19 to call Suga to postpone the plan. Suga, who has faced heavy criticism for controlling Chega’s latest wave, said last week that he had no intention of stopping the show.
Osaka and Sapporo have already been withdrawn after seeing a sharp increase in both cases.
480 new cases were reported in Tokyo on Sunday – the highest number ever in that day of the week, while 93 cases were reported in Nagoya. Across the country, 2,388 infections were reported in Japan on Sunday, down from a record 3,041 on Saturday.
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Now we know everything from travel bubbles:
New Zealand’s cabinet has agreed to establish a quarantine-free travel bubble with Australia in the first quarter of 2021, the prime minister has said.
The inauguration will depend on the approval of the Australian Australian government and the Covid-19 situation that remains unresolved in the country, Ardern said after meeting his ministers on Monday, adding that much preparation is needed.
“We intend to name a date … in the new year, once the rest of the details are locked,” Arrd said.
“New Zealand currently has the lowest Covid-19 mortality rate and the lowest active cases among OECD countries.”
He said work needed to be done on a number of issues, including how the “safe zone” and Covid-19 passengers from the affected countries could be isolated and how New Zealand would deal with the “flood” of returning Kiwis. Australia Australia:
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