A new mutated coronavirus has also been confirmed in quarantine at domestic airports, and the government is further strengthening border measures.
In addition to tightening restrictions on entry from the country where the virus was found from the 26th, we are proceeding with the establishment of a system to promptly confirm whether the virus is mutated.
For the first time, it was confirmed that five men and women arriving at domestic airports were infected with the mutated new coronavirus, which is spreading in the United Kingdom this month.
All of them were positive in the airport quarantine and stayed at the hotel, so the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare believes that there was no contact that could infect other people in the country.
The government is further strengthening airport border measures.
Regarding entry from the United Kingdom, new entry is refused from the 24th except for Japanese and foreign nationals with a status of residence, but the same measures are taken from the 26th for South Africa where the mutated virus was found. I will.
We also requested Japanese people and those with a status of residence to wait for 14 days, which had been exempted so far, and Japanese people, like those with a status of residence, were inspected 72 hours before leaving the country. We are newly requesting you to submit a certificate.
In addition, until now, samples collected by airport quarantine have been collected to a certain extent before being sent to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases for genetic analysis, but of these, samples from people who have stayed in the United Kingdom were promptly collected. We are in the process of establishing a system to send it to the laboratory and immediately check whether it is a mutated virus.