{"id":1069636,"date":"2021-11-30T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1069636"},"modified":"2021-11-30T18:13:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:13:55","slug":"japan-logs-first-omicron-coronavirus-case-closes-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/japan-logs-first-omicron-coronavirus-case-closes-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Logs First Omicron Coronavirus Case, Closes Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fjapan-logs-first-omicron-coronavirus-case-closes-borders%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=1069636&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Japanese-airport-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Japan <a href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/news\/2021\/11\/069560bf662e-urgent-1st-omicron-case-confirmed-in-japan.html\">recorded<\/a> its first case of the coronavirus variant Omicron Tuesday in a man who arrived in Tokyo from Namibia on Sunday, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu (pictured below) told reporters at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s government confirmed the new infection on the same day it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/29\/omicron-japan-bars-all-foreign-entries-for-one-month\/\">imposed<\/a> a month-long ban on all foreign entries to Japan. The travel restriction was introduced in response to news that a new variant of \u201cCovid-19,\u201d or the Chinese coronavirus, called Omicron, emerged this month in southern Africa.<\/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>Matsuno <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/japan-confirms-first-case-omicron-variant-coronavirus-kyodo-2021-11-30\/\">told<\/a> reporters on November 30 that Japan\u2019s first Omicron patient is \u201ca diplomat from Namibia in his thirties who arrived at the Japanese capital\u2019s airport of Narita [on November 28].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s health ministry said the man presented \u201cno symptoms\u201d of illness upon arriving at Tokyo-Narita on Sunday \u201cbut developed a fever on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo family members traveling with him have tested negative and are quarantining at a government-designated facility,\u201d according to the ministry.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe man tested positive for the coronavirus upon arrival and samples were being examined at [Japan\u2019s] National Institute of Infectious Diseases to confirm whether it was the Omicron variant,\u201d Matsuno told reporters at Tuesday\u2019s press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround 70 people who were on the same flight as the man \u2026 have tested negative and are being treated as close contacts,\u201d Japanese Health Minister Goto Shigeyuki told reporters on November 30.<\/p>\n<p>Goto said the Namibian Omicron patient is currently quarantined at a state-run facility. The health minister added that the patient was \u201cfully vaccinated,\u201d though he did not specify with which type of vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Matsuno said Tuesday the discovery of the Omicron patient demonstrated that Japan\u2019s government made the correct decision in choosing to shut its borders to all foreign entries this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to avoid the worst-case situation with Omicron, we\u2019ll stay on top of the infection situation in each nation and respond flexibly and fast,\u201d Japan\u2019s Chief Cabinet Secretary told reporters.<\/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. The United Nations public health agency said Omicron demonstrates \u201cseveral 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 Further study is necessary to know definitively if Omicron is more transmissible or causes more severe illness than existing variants of \u201cCovid-19,\u201d which is the name of the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a type of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe emergence of the Omicron variant comes as Japan is experiencing a dip in infections,\u201d Kyodo News observed on November 30. \u201cJust 132 new coronavirus cases were reported across the country on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe previous wave of infections, caused by the Delta variant [of coronavirus] this summer, peaked at more than 25,000 cases per day,\u201d the Japanese news agency recalled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan recorded its first case of the coronavirus variant Omicron Tuesday in a man who arrived in Tokyo from Namibia on Sunday, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu (pictured below) &#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-1069636","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\/1069636","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=1069636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069636\/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=1069636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}