The Japanese authorities on Wednesday eased its journey warning over the coronavirus pandemic for 54 international locations and a area, together with Indonesia and the Philippines, and is now not requesting that residents in Japan chorus from nonessential journeys to these nations.
The Overseas Ministry mentioned it had lowered the journey advisory for these areas from the second-lowest Stage 2 on its four-point scale to Stage 1, which advises Japanese nationals touring to these areas to “keep totally alert.”
Twenty-three international locations and a area from the Center East and Africa, comparable to Egypt and South Africa, have been newly designated as Stage 1. Eleven European nations together with Ukraine and Russia, 10 Asian and Pacific international locations comparable to Pakistan and Myanmar in addition to 10 in Latin America have been additionally newly designated as Stage 1, in accordance with the ministry.
In the meantime, 35 areas together with Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Turkey remained underneath the Stage 2 warning.
As well as, advisories for 41 different nations have been downgraded from Stage 3, which warns individuals to keep away from all journey, to Stage 2. Amongst them are 33 within the Center East and Africa, 4 within the Caribbean, three in Japanese Europe, and Kyrgyzstan.
Seventy different nations and areas comparable to China, South Korea, India, the USA, Britain, France and Germany have already been moved to Stage 1.
The whole variety of areas underneath the Stage 1 class now stands at 125, whereas these at Stage 2 have declined to 76. No nations fall into Stage 3 and 4.
The ministry mentioned it nonetheless recommends those that plan to journey abroad to get totally vaccinated to forestall COVID-19 an infection.
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