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matsuki wrote:Something tells me giving kiddos a month off of school is not going to have the effect they are going for...Disneyland the next epicenter?
Russell wrote:matsuki wrote:Something tells me giving kiddos a month off of school is not going to have the effect they are going for...Disneyland the next epicenter?
Disneyland will close from 29 Feb to 15 March.
dimwit wrote:So like I heard like on the internet that if you put like about five bags of cat litter on your floor it will like protect you from like the coronavirus because you know cat litter absorbs all sorts of stuff like virus and things. All you need to do is buy about 20 bags of the stuff and it should like cover a single room. But it's like a secret so you better go to the supermarket or drug store and buy up all the cat litter before it is all sold out.
matsuki wrote:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-03/coronavirus-covid-19-has-begun-spreading-within-australia/12018688
Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
Grumpy Gramps wrote:In Europe, they also don't want you to shake hands anymore. No talks about hugs and kisses so far, though.
Russell wrote:Grumpy Gramps wrote:In Europe, they also don't want you to shake hands anymore. No talks about hugs and kisses so far, though.
Europe starting to bow. Export of Japanese culture.
dimwit wrote:So like I went to the drug store and supermarket and convenience store and like I couldn't find...
“Starting today, as a countermeasure to the coronavirus, [this restaurant] is Japanese only. I have a responsibility to protect my family, my staff and Sanji junkies. Please understand that this is not discrimination.”
Grumpy Gramps wrote:Waiting for Debito to alight from his grave.
Seoul lashes neighbour’s ‘passive’ approach to containing the virus and implies Tokyo is more concerned with ensuring Olympics go ahead
The coronavirus outbreak has ignited a diplomatic row between Japan and South Korea, after Tokyo said it would quarantine all passengers arriving from the country, which has the highest number of Covid-19 cases outside China.
In response, the government in Seoul on Friday called the move “unreasonable, excessive and extremely regrettable”, threatening retaliatory measures and accusing Japan of not dealing with its own outbreak properly.
From Saturday, anyone arriving in Japan from South Korea will be placed in two weeks’ quarantine at government-designated sites, the prime minister, Shinzo Abe said on Thursday, amid criticism of his handling of the outbreak just months before the country is due to host the Olympics.
“It is extremely regrettable Japan took this unreasonable and excessive step without sufficient prior consultation with us, and we strongly urge immediate reconsideration,” the South Korean foreign ministry said in a statement. Seoul said it would summon Japan’s ambassador to explain the measure, hinting that Tokyo had been motivated by politics rather than a desire to contain the spread of the respiratory illness.
“We can’t help but question whether Japan has other motives than containing the outbreak,” the statement said, without elaborating.
South Korea’s criticisms found an echo from the World Health Organisation, which said on Thursday night that some countries were not showing “the level of political commitment” needed to “match the level of the threat we all face”.
Although he didn’t name any culprits, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters: “This is not a drill. This epidemic is a threat for every country, rich and poor.”
Japan’s chief government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, defended the decision saying it was “the result of a comprehensive review of the information available about the situation in other countries and the effects of other measures. I think the timing is appropriate.”
The new measures also applied to visitors from China where new cases rose by 143 on Friday. Another 30 deaths were recorded.
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Japan’s stock market is now at a six-month low and the economy faces a significant hit from the new travel restrictions. Big-spending Chinese visitors are a major plank of Shinzo Abe’s plan to revitalise the economy.
But Japan will also have to deal with the diplomatic fallout from South Korea. Seoul’s presidential office said the country was starting to see progress from its “transparent and active quarantine efforts” to contain the illness, contrasting it with Japan’s approach.
“While our country is sternly dealing with Covid-19 under its scientific and transparent quarantine system that is highly evaluated by the rest of the world, Japan is losing its faith from the international community because of its ambiguous and passive quarantine efforts,” the office said in a statement, according to Yonhap news agency.
South Korea’s national security council said it would consider countermeasures against Tokyo. Those could include designating Japan as a risk area for infectious diseases and placing its own restrictions on travellers from Japan. South Korea has not, though, imposed corresponding measures on more than 90 other countries that have banned or restricted visitors from the country.
Japan’s new quarantine requirement would create havoc for thousands of Koreans who had planned to visit Japan, said Park Chul-hyun, a media columnist based in Tokyo who cancelled a three-day trip to Seoul for fear of having to go into quarantine on his return.
“There are thousands of South Koreans arriving in Tokyo on a daily basis and I bet a majority of them have called off their trips,” Park told Agence France-Presse, dismissing the measure as a “pure performance” ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.
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Mike Oxlong wrote:The responses in terms of testing, treatment and quarantine between the two countries does indeed seem to confirm Coligny's observations of the contrasts of the two systems when he required medical services in South Korea.
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