TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will prohibit entry of foreigners from 73 countries and ask everyone showing up from abroad to quarantine for two weeks in its battle to include the coronavirus, with a senior minister warning the country had been pressed “to the brink”.
New workers participate in an entrance ceremony as they rest on seats arranged to keep a distance from each other amidst the spread of coronavirus illness (COVID-19) at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan April 1, 2020, in this picture released by Kyodo. Necessary credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
Medical experts advising Prime Minister Shinzo Abe informed a press conference on Wednesday that the quick spread of contagion was seriously straining health centers in the capital Tokyo, in Osaka and some other prefectures, which quick action was essential.
” Fundamental reactions should be made as early as today or tomorrow,” Shigeru Omi, head of the Japan Community Healthcare Organisation, stated. He said the medical system might collapse even before an “overshoot” – or explosive rise in cases.
Abe is facing growing public calls to state a state of emergency that would offer regional guvs greater clout to tell residents to stay at home, close schools and take other actions. However the pertinent making it possible for law includes no charges for the most part.
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