File photo of an employee, wearing protective mask following the Covid-19 outbreak, walks in an almost empty Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan,March 14, 2020. — Reuters pic
TOKYO, Nov 27 — Japan will tighten border controls for the southern African nations of Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia, requiring a 10-day quarantine for any entrants, the Foreign Ministry said today, after a new coronavirus variant was detected in South Africa.
The new rules will take effect from midnight (1500 GMT on Saturday) and come a day after Japan tightened border controls for those arriving from South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Lesotho. — Reuters