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The COVID-19 pandemic in Japan has resulted in 33,803,572 [1] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 74,694 [1] deaths, along with 33,728,878 recoveries. The Japanese government confirmed the country's first case of the disease on 16 January 2020 in a resident of Kanagawa Prefecture who had returned from Wuhan, China. [3]
British airline Flybe, already struggling financially prior to the virus outbreak, entered administration on 5 March 2020 due to the effects of the pandemic. [ 11] Charter airline Miami Air International filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 24 March and ceased all operations on 8 May. [ 12] Trans States Airlines, the sister company of Compass ...
The effects of COVID-19 lockdowns were subject of the first quantitative research on large-scale modal shifts and demand reduction in aviation. [150] It illustrated that a significant share of business travel is not necessary [151] and advanced or increased the adoption of various methods and technologies to mitigate air travel demand.
Visitor numbers improved to 96.1% of levels seen in 2019 before the outbreak of COVID-19 led to travel curbs around the world. Japan ended some of the world's strictest COVID-19 border ...
The U.S. State Department on Monday urged against travel to Japan due to a new wave of COVID-19 infections, issuing a "Do Not Travel" advisory just two months before the Tokyo Olympics are set to ...
The Biden administration will lift the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for inbound international air travelers on Friday. "As we continue to monitor the evolving state of COVID-19 and the emergence ...
On 28 January 2021, the European Union has reinstated a travel ban from Japan due to an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases. Hence, Japan is no longer a part of the EU's safe countries list. [101] The following countries are listed as safe countries amidst the pandemic – Australia, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand and Thailand.
The 2002–2004 outbreak of SARS, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), infected over 8,000 people from 30 countries and territories, and resulted in at least 774 deaths worldwide. [ 1] The outbreak was first identified in Foshan, Guangdong, China, in November 2002. [ 2]