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Japan to suspend entry of non-resident foreign nationals
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IANS | 13 Jan, 2021
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Wednesday said the entry of
all non-resident foreign nationals into the country will be suspended as
part of a coordinated effort to curb the further spread of the Covid-19
pandemic.
The majority of entries were suspended in December,
although travelers arriving on business and associated with some student
programmes from certain countries had been exempt from the tightening
restrictions, Xinhua reported.
The essential shutdown of Japan's
borders to all non-resident foreign nationals will be kept in place
until February 7, when a state of emergency declared in the Greater
Tokyo and other areas in Japan will be lifted, the Japanese leader told a
press briefing on the matter.
The move, however, is a detraction from the Prime Minister's previous stance.
He
had remarked on a TV show recently that Japan would keep its doors open
for business people from certain countries, provided that doing so did
not lead to an influx of the new, highly transmissible coronavirus
variant previously found in Britain and South Africa.
Within the
ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), however, lawmakers refused to
simply roll-over to the new idea, with some of them calling for the
exemption to be suspended.
They argued that it was contradictory
to ask Japanese people to stay home under the state of emergency while
still allowing non-resident foreign nationals into the country.
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| Customs Exchange Rates |
| Currency |
Import |
Export |
US Dollar
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₹91.2
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₹89.5 |
UK Pound
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₹123.35
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₹119.35 |
Euro
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₹107
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₹103.35 |
| Japanese
Yen |
₹57.9 |
₹56.1 |
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