October 13, 2020
Overview of the Situation in Japan
Japan is locked down hard regarding international travel but they've been fairly laid back with regards to the lockdown on businesses. It's largely voluntary....aside from masks on mass transit, and there are various off and on travel restrictions in place.
Their economy is largely open now, though restaurants are suffering from what I've heard elsewhere. All in all, they seem to have been much more sensible than in many places in the U.S. They were both more cautious at the beginning when the situation looked very dire, and quickly relaxed the lockdown when it became obvious it was dangerous, but not as bad as initially feared. The state of emergency was lifted in May. Despite demographics trending quite old and this disease being lethal to the old, Japan's death rate is remarkably low.
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Wait a moment... Yesterday, Russians announced resumption of commercial airline flights between Russia and Japan, starting on November 1. Is Japan actually hard locked?
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Oct 14 17:07:01 2020 (LZ7Bg)
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There is also Taiwan, which was much quicker and more restrictive in their immediate handling of foreign travelers (Citizens coming back from foreign locations were a different matter, and represented all the new cases in the country for a while now.), but while they did impose some select restrictions on capacity and masking, never came close to locking down the nation...To the point that the more alarmist people were demanding to know why the government was still allowing bars and clubs to be opened. This result came despite not only having a significant cross-strait passenger traffic, but also other sources of infection, like the ocean liner (Which was actually a good case study in how less infectious the Wuhan Flu was, even under near-ideal conditions for it to spread.).
Taiwan as a model for other nations to follow is obviously imperfect (The ROC had the ability and authority to do contact tracing to the level of detail that they could release for public consumption, several days' worth of point by point movement details for confirmed infected patients, which is something that would never fly in the US.). But given how the State Department, even at the height of the Wuhan Flu, never moved recommending travelers take 'normal precautions' for Taiwan, there is something to be learned from there.
Taiwan as a model for other nations to follow is obviously imperfect (The ROC had the ability and authority to do contact tracing to the level of detail that they could release for public consumption, several days' worth of point by point movement details for confirmed infected patients, which is something that would never fly in the US.). But given how the State Department, even at the height of the Wuhan Flu, never moved recommending travelers take 'normal precautions' for Taiwan, there is something to be learned from there.
Posted by: cxt217 at Wed Oct 14 17:08:21 2020 (4i7w0)
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There is an overview of the Japanese Counter-CoronaChan Quarantine Controls here. They were not allowing ANY foreign entry for most of the year (even for residents at one point). Now tourism is still disallowed and they are easing some restrictions, but all entrants must be tested before coming as well as upon arrival and need to quarantine 14 days.(not self-quarantined..held in an approved facility under guard and isolated for the duration). As they build more containment facilities, I suspect their numbers allowed in will increase rapidly, but given the measures, I'd consider the place to be locked down pretty hard.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Oct 14 17:34:31 2020 (5iiQK)
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