As a measure against the border of Omicron strain, a new mutant virus of the new corona, the occupancy rate of accommodation facilities where people returning from Kansai Airport are waiting has increased 11 times in the past week.


It is expected that the situation will be tight toward the end of the year, and there is an urgent need to secure waiting facilities, such as the Governor Yoshimura of Osaka Prefecture showing a policy to provide some of the accommodation facilities reserved by the prefecture for infected people. ..

As a measure at the water's edge, the government has stayed at accommodations designated by the quarantine station for 3 to 10 days for Japanese returning from 61 countries and regions where infected Omicron strains have been confirmed and foreigners with status of residence. We are taking measures to get them.



At Kansai Airport, a total of seven flights from the Netherlands and Thailand are scheduled to arrive on the 9th, even though the number of international flights will be significantly reduced due to the corona disaster. The staff was guided to the bus to the waiting facility for returnees.



The Kansai Airport Quarantine Station has secured a total of 1409 rooms in three hotels around the airport as waiting facilities, but the occupancy rate, which was about 6% at the end of last month, was as of the 9th. Then it is 11 times as much as 66%.



According to the quarantine station, the number of returnees is expected to increase toward the end of the year, and the waiting facility is expected to be tight.



On the 8th, Governor Yoshimura of Osaka Prefecture announced a policy to provide some of the accommodation facilities that the prefecture has secured for infected people with the new corona, and there is an urgent need to secure waiting facilities.