コロナ水際対策緩和へ　岸田首相が検討明言

　岸田文雄首相は１２日、外国人の新規入国の原則停止を柱とする新型コロナウイルス感染拡大防止のための水際対策について「緩和の方向で検討していきたい」と明言した。政府は現行対策の期限となる２月末に合わせて緩和したい考えで、ビジネス関係者や留学生を対象に緩和を先行させる案が出ている。（2022/02/12-12:29）

Japan will consider relaxing its border control measures against the novel coronavirus, which currently ban new entries by foreign nationals in principle, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Saturday.
   The government hopes to ease the controls when the current measures expire at the end of February, while there is a proposal to relax restrictions in advance on business travelers and students, informed sources said.
   "We need to comprehensively take into account the accumulation of scientific knowledge on the omicron strain, changes in the infection situations at home and abroad, and border controls overseas," Kishida told reporters after inspecting border control work at Tokyo International Airport at Haneda.
   "We will proceed with a study on easing" the curbs, he added.
   Since Nov. 30 last year, Japan has in principle banned entries by nonresident foreigners in response to the spread of the highly infectious omicron variant and limited the number of people allowed to enter the county to some 3,500 per day.