South Korea will suspend visa waiver for Japan
Seoul, March 6 (Xinhua)-South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on the 6th that it decided to suspend the visa-free entry policy for Japanese citizens starting at 00:00 on the 9th.
Since last year, South Korea-Japan relations have fallen into a trough due to trade frictions. The recent epidemic of new crown pneumonia has caused another setback in bilateral relations.
With the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in many countries, Japan announced on the 5th that it will strengthen immigration control measures for citizens of South Korea and other places, requiring that from 9th, immigrants from South Korea need to be quarantined in Japan for two weeks.
South Korea ’s foreign ministry summoned the Japanese ambassador to South Korea on Wednesday to protest.
On the evening of the 6th, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea announced that it would suspend the visa-free entry policy for Japanese citizens starting from the 9th, and raised the level of Japan's travel warning to the second level, "Go Carefully."
According to the data of the Korean Ministry of Disease Management, as of 16:00 local time, the cumulative number of newly diagnosed cases of new coronary pneumonia in South Korea has increased to 6,593. (Finish)