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Gov't to exclude Sapporo, Osaka from Go To travel campaign for 3 weeks

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Wonder how many meetings this took.

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Total confusion about handling the sanitary crisis and the economic consequences.

Please stay at home, please travel, oh but now, please not travel there ... and now there ... and again you can ... unless you should stay at home again ... well we're not sure ...

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3 weeks may not be enough. And the go-to should be suspended for residents of Sapporo and Osaka as well.

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So we can expect bigger lines at the end of the three weeks period. Great! Also, if Sapporo and Osaka are where the infections are spiking, why would the government encourage people living there to go out to other areas and travel around?

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@cracaphat

There is just a problem with the way overall medical care work in Japan (there is obviously good place so I am not dismissing every hospital and so on, everyone can name good place). All of us have read report and/or know of people having to wait until ambulance find a hospital willing to take them, not in regard of the hospital full occupancy or not, just of if the patient is "attractive" enough or not. The stigma, not only on medical facility, is a problem.

Hippocrates must be crying.

(the link came from someone else, thanks to him/her)

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So the government decides to exclude Sapporo, Osaka from Go To travel campaign for 3 weeks. What happens when people travel from that region to other parts of Japan. It seems like they are more concern with corralling the virus to those areas but people from those areas will travel.

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Just on the train heading west out of Kobe and the the social distancing is amazing!

People are not sitting together at all and many are standing rather than sitting.

The fear seems to be spreading faster than the virus....

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@cracaphat

I guess having a bed occupancy of around 100% is kind of motivating for Osaka to take measure.

Aichi and Tokyo should follow suite since they are on part with Hokkaido.

https://www.stopcovid19.jp/#Osaka

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Two cities, three weeks, and further virus spreading is ok, but import not? Decisions are now obviously made by throwing dice, right?

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will ask..

consider..

how much time wasted before 'will order'.

weak hands again

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The new "Don't Go To" campaign, couldn't make it up....

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Hope these two prefectures and others don't reduce testing further to get back into the Gotos and for others to remain in it,

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ZorotoToday  05:04 pm JST

Trips by residents of Sapporo in Hokkaido and Osaka to other areas will continue to be eligible for the Go To Travel campaign

This makes absolutely no sense.

you haven't figured it by now?

The health systems in Hokkaido and Osaka are said to be stretched thus they don't want additional tourists clogging up the health system. Also it acts as a reminder for Hokkaido and Osaka tourists to be extra careful if they travel.

Finally it greatly cuts the number of people bringing the virus home or to the workplace where many infections occur.

It's not about stopping the virus, its about limiting the impact and this reduces the spread by half at least.

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Marcelito

The countries you state attempted to eliminate the virus, japan isn't trying that.

Fur

Secondly the Japanese government don't believe assymptomatics pose a risk.

And glad you've figured out it's half backed. The government clearly don't believe this is a major problem but have to do something to look as if they are taking the press panic.

Personally, seeing as the death rate is so low and the dead are around life expectancy coupled with the fact the dramatic fall in influenza deaths. I support the government doing the bear minimum.

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