Six reasons the coronavirus is taking a break in Japan

Tokyo The new Coronavirus variant Omikron has Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida act quickly. As early as Monday, he announced that he would tighten the entry restrictions for foreign businesspeople, which were eased only three weeks ago. “This is an emergency preventive measure to avoid a worst-case scenario,” said Kishida.

In fact, there is a political need to hurry to curb the introduction of new infections. Because Kishida has a worldwide exception to defend in the pandemic. Japan’s epidemiologists are warning of a sixth wave. But while coronaviruses continue to rage in other industrialized countries, the pandemic in Japan looks almost extinct after the fifth wave in the summer.