{"id":1065620,"date":"2021-11-29T17:16:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T22:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065620"},"modified":"2021-11-29T17:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T22:16:35","slug":"omicron-japan-bars-all-foreign-entries-for-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/omicron-japan-bars-all-foreign-entries-for-one-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron: Japan Bars All Foreign Entries for One Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fomicron-japan-bars-all-foreign-entries-for-one-month%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065620&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Japan\u2019s government on Monday announced a month-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2021\/11\/29\/national\/japan-omicron-entry-restrictions\/\">ban<\/a> on all foreign travelers entering the country beginning Tuesday in an effort to prevent a new strain of coronavirus known as Omicron from invading Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a preventative, emergency measure to avoid a worst-case scenario,\u201d Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio told reporters at a press conference on November 29.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The travel restriction applies to all new entries to Japan \u201cincluding foreign exchange students, interns and those traveling for business \u2014 from every country in the world,\u201d according to the <em>Japan Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entry ban will not affect Japanese nationals or foreign residents returning to the country,\u201d the newspaper detailed, adding, \u201cthose returning from designated countries where the variant has been reported will need to isolate at a government-designated facility for three to 10 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Kishida said Monday his administration chose to seal off Japan\u2019s borders to the outside world as a \u201ctemporary measure until information about the Omicron variant becomes clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen dealing with an unknown risk, it\u2019s best to take every precaution,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/28-11-2021-update-on-omicron\">declared<\/a> Omicron a \u201cvariant of concern\u201d on November 26 after it was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/botswana-says-15-more-cases-omicron-variant-detected-country-2021-11-28\/\">detected<\/a> in southern Africa in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision was based on the evidence \u2026 that Omicron has several mutations that may have an impact on how it behaves, for example, on how easily it spreads or the severity of illness it causes,\u201d the U.N.\u2019s public health agency wrote in a notice posted by its website November 28.<\/p>\n<p>The W.H.O. said more testing is necessary to understand with certainty if Omicron is more contagious or causes more severe illness than existing variants of \u201cCovid-19,\u201d the name of the disease caused by a type of coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. \u201cCovid-19\u201d is also known as the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18930706\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18930706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/virus-outbreak-south-africa-receives-dose-of-vaccine-at-covid-19-vaccine-centre-soweto-monday-nov.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1449\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man receives a dose of a vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccine centre, in Soweto, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. The World Health Organization has urged countries not to impose flight bans on southern African nations due to concerns over the new omicron variant. (AP Photo\/Denis Farrell)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Japan\u2019s government on Monday said its entry restrictions will increase for Japanese citizens and foreign residents returning home from 14 countries where Omicron has been detected so far. Those nations include Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, and Angola.<\/p>\n<p>Starting November 30, any Japanese citizen or foreign resident returning from the above African countries \u201cwill be required to spend 10 days at a government-designated facility and four more at a location of their choice,\u201d according to the <em>Japan Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting Wednesday [December 1], Japan will also lower its daily limit for the number of people arriving from 5,000 back down to 3,500,\u201d Kyodo News <a href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/news\/2021\/11\/e9e964505db6-breaking-news-japan-to-take-further-border-steps-over-omicron-variant-kishida.html\">reported<\/a> on November 29.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo\u2019s decision to shut down international travel to Japan on Monday comes less than one month after the naturally-isolated island nation began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/japan-eases-covid-19-border-curbs-trails-major-partners-2021-11-02\/\">easing<\/a> coronavirus travel restrictions for the country in response to a decrease in new daily cases of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective Nov. 8, new entries were allowed [into Japan] for the first time in nearly a year provided they quarantine for 14 days, or for 10 days if they were fully vaccinated,\u201d the <em>Japan Times<\/em>&nbsp;recalled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s government on Monday announced a month-long ban on all foreign travelers entering the country beginning Tuesday in an effort to prevent a new strain of coronavirus known as Omicron &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}