水際対策、来月から緩和　留学生・技能実習生に門戸―政府

　岸田文雄首相は１５日、新型コロナウイルスの水際対策を３月１日をめどに緩和する意向を固めた。外国人の入国停止の例外を拡大し、ビジネス関係者や留学生、技能実習生の入国を条件付きで認める方向で最終調整する。入国・帰国者数を１日当たり５０００人程度に拡大する見通しだ。
　首相は１５日、松野博一官房長官、藤井健志官房副長官補、安藤俊英外務省領事局長らと首相官邸で協議。内閣官房から示された水際対策緩和案を基本的に了承した。首相が近く発表する。（2022/02/15-21:31）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has decided to ease his country's pandemic-linked border controls on March 1 at the earliest, informed sources said Tuesday.
   On the day, Kishida discussed the issue with officials including Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeshi Fujii and Toshihide Ando, director-general of the Foreign Ministry's Consular Affairs Bureau, and basically approved a draft plan, presented by the Cabinet Secretariat, to relax the entry restrictions.
   The prime minister will shortly announce the easing plan, according to the sources.
   In response to the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, the government introduced stricter entry restrictions on Nov. 30 last year, including a basic ban on new entries into Japan by foreign nationals.
   The government now plans to basically rescind the stricter measures, the sources said.