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March 14, 2021
TOKYO (AP) Transportation Minister Kazuyoshi Akaba said Japan will tighten border controls and limit the number of entrants to up to 2,000 per day to guard against the more contagious variants of the coronavirus.
Japan has confirmed 345 cases of the more contagious new variants, mostly the kind first found in Britain, the Health Ministry said. The health authorities have found the cases of the new variants to have quadrupled over the past month.
They said the cases have been found in about half of Japan’s 47 prefectures but need to be closely watched and precautions should be increased. Tokyo and its three neighbouring prefectures are under a non-binding state of emergency since January 7.
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