Japanese citizens and foreign residents can still enter, but they will have to self-immolate for 14 days, according to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK.
The move comes after the Tokyo metropolitan government on Saturday confirmed two new cases of Covid-19 variants that have recently returned from the UK.
The first two new cases were found outside the airport quarantine in the country.
On Friday, five other passengers from Britain were found with variants at Japan’s international airports.
Various degrees of control have been announced by countries such as Denmark, Ecuador, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ukraine. Others have banned travel or suspended flights from the UK, such as Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and Spain.
Others have extended or banned travel to other countries, such as Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia. According to Maria Van Kerkov of the World Health Organization, many countries have also banned travel from South Africa, where a different kind of report is being received.
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