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Foreigners will be banned from entering Japan from December 28. The decision was made amid a record increase in new COVID-19 cases in the past three days, as well as the discovery of a new strain of coronavirus.
The Japanese government has announced a complete border closure in relation to the coronavirus epidemic. Reported by Nikkei.
The decision will take effect on December 28 and will be valid until at least the end of January. Only Japanese and foreigners with Japanese resident status will be allowed to cross the state border.
The government decided to close the borders in relation to the increase in the incidence of coronavirus: in the last three days, the daily increase does not fall below 3 thousand, and on December 25 more than 3.7 thousand new cases were confirmed, which it is the absolute maximum since the start of the pandemic.
Additionally, the country has confirmed at least five cases of infection with a new strain of coronavirus, which was found in the UK in mid-December.
An outbreak of coronavirus infection began in late 2019 in China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic. Since the start of the pandemic in Japan, more than 218,000 people have been infected by the coronavirus, of which more than 3,000 have died.
The identification of a new type of coronavirus, hence the rate of spread of the disease in some parts of the UK, UK Health Minister Matt Hancock announced on December 15. By then, more than 1,000 cases of infection with a new type of virus had been confirmed in the country in 60 regions of the country.
Britain’s chief health doctor, British government advisor on medicine Chris Whitty spoke about the high rate of spread of a new type of coronavirus. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the new strain could be 70% more infectious. At the same time, according to Whitty, there is currently no evidence that the new strain of coronavirus causes a higher death rate.
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