Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that his country
is adding 14 more countries, including Russia, Peru and Saudi
Arabia, to the entry ban list as the country steps up border
control as the coronavirus infections continued to spread in the
country.
Japan has already banned entry from more than 70 other
countries, banning foreigners with records of visiting those
countries in the past two weeks, while invalidating visas for the
rest of the world. The additional step on the 14 countries will
take effect Wednesday, Abe said.
The entry ban and the visa restrictions, initially set to end on
April 30, are extended until the end of May.
Japan is now under a month-long state of emergency through May
6, for now. Officials and experts are now gauging its effect and
whether to extend the measure.
Japan has 13,385 confirmed cases, as well as 712 others from a
cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo earlier this year, with 364
deaths, according to the health ministry.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that his country
is adding 14 more countries, including Russia, Peru and Saudi
Arabia, to the entry ban list as the country steps up border
control as the coronavirus infections continued to spread in the
country.
Japan has already banned entry from more than 70 other
countries, banning foreigners with records of visiting those
countries in the past two weeks, while invalidating visas for the
rest of the world. The additional step on the 14 countries will
take effect Wednesday, Abe said.
The entry ban and the visa restrictions, initially set to end on
April 30, are extended until the end of May.
Japan is now under a month-long state of emergency through May
6, for now. Officials and experts are now gauging its effect and
whether to extend the measure.
Japan has 13,385 confirmed cases, as well as 712 others from a
cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo earlier this year, with 364
deaths, according to the health ministry.