Japan raised its travel alert to level 3 for 18 countries, including Haiti, and urged its citizens to avoid traveling to these destinations, which have recently seen a significant increase in cases of Covid-19 coronavirus.

List of countries concerned :

Algeria, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Cuba, Eswatini, Georgia, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Iraq, Jamaica, Lebanon, Mauritania, Nicaragua, the Central African Republic, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Senegal.

These countries are added to the list of countries and regions already subject to an entry ban for foreign travelers, said Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi.

Japan currently denies entry to foreign travelers who have visited any of 111 countries and regions, including the United States, China and South Korea, as well as most other parts of Asia, within two weeks of their arrival.

Note that level 3 is the second highest level in the travel alert system of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, level 4 being a call for immediate evacuation.

As a reminder, travel to and from Japan has practically stopped due to restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Foreign visitors fell bt 99.9% and Japanese people leaving the country by 99.8% in April compared with the previous year.

HL/ HaitiLibre