As we approach the last day of Obon, people are visiting the inspection center at Haneda Airport one after another to take PCR tests and antigen tests to check whether they are infected before boarding an airplane.
In the morning of the 16th, the last day of the Bon Festival, people returning to work after a break and those who are about to return to their hometowns are coming one after another at the laboratory where you can take PCR tests and antigen tests in the terminal building of Haneda Airport. I was visiting for an inspection.
It is said that the company that operates the testing site has temporarily opened 21 testing sites nationwide from the 5th of this month, as the infection of the Omicron strain spreads and the period of summer vacation and Obon is approaching without restrictions on movement. In the week leading up to the day, more than 144,000 people used it, 10% more than the previous week.
A 60-year-old man from Shizuoka Prefecture, who is going to work on Amami Oshima, said, ``I took safety precautions during the Bon Festival and didn't go anywhere. I want to be careful because it will happen," he said.
A woman in her thirties heading to Fukuoka with her son, who is in the first year of junior high school, said, "I was worried about returning home because the infection was spreading, but I put up with wanting to see you and spent time on the videophone. I want to show it, so I'm glad there's a facility where I can get tested."