Regarding the response to the Omicron strain, the government has changed the treatment of all passengers on the same plane as the infected person as close contacts to only the passengers around the infected person.
Through these measures, we would like to secure a waiting facility for close contacts, expand the scope of free inspections, and contain the spread of infection.
About 60 people who entered Japan from the 17th to the 23rd of this month have been newly confirmed to be infected with Omicron strain, a new mutant virus of the new corona, and infected people who are thought to be community-acquired in various places. Confirmation is one after another.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno said on the 27th, "The plan to prepare for the next spread of the infection will secure up to about 66,000 rooms nationwide," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno. He stated that he would continue to develop the necessary system.
However, at the meeting of the National Governors' Association, there was an opinion that "the number of close contacts of returnees is increasing rapidly, and there will be insufficient accommodation facilities as it is", and there is growing concern about the shortage of accommodation facilities.
Under these circumstances, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said that the percentage of passengers who were positive for the treatment of all passengers who were on the same plane as the infected person as close contacts was extremely low, and from the 28th, as with the conventional virus. , Only for passengers in the same row of infected people and two rows before and after.
The government said that this measure would help alleviate the tightness of accommodation facilities, and secured a waiting facility for close contacts and strengthened measures so that free inspections could be conducted in prefectures adjacent to prefectures where infected persons were confirmed. , I want to contain the spread of the infection.