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Japan plans another Wuhan evacuation flight midweek or later

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Will there be another press conference or maybe two?

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So, what are there plans to quarantine these people? Are they going to scatter them all over the country and allow them to refuse medical exams?

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Good Job. Bring our people home and get them out there.

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Five or ten percent of the returnees each time seem to be sick.

Hoping that by the fourth flight all systems are working to properly look after everyone involved.

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Why as long as they are wear masks unlike the dumb Brits and French who allowed their returnees and their bus drivers not wear masks. But heck, they have any money.

It is common knowledge that the face masks don't really protect from the virus. The second or later rounds of returnees may have a higher probability of infection than the earlier returnees because more people in China will have contracted it by now.

Shouldn't the handling of these later returnees be more carefully planned?

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If the US flies you out, you have to reimburse the state department, who's paying for these Japan flights?

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Badge, there was some talk of making the returnees pay 80,000 JPY each, but I believe the Prime Minister has decided that the government will pay.

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In other words, you, me, and every other tax-payer?

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I have no problem paying out of my taxes so long as the returnees must submit to a 14 day quarantine away from the general population. Otherwise I definitely have a problem with it.

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Unnecessary and unwise, as simple as that. Everything is free in China now to contain the virus, including hotel and meals.

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So has the government taken the necessary legal steps to finally be able to mandate a quarantine upon repatriation fot all evacuees, not just those testing positive on the plane? If not, this is as foolish as the three previous flights, especially in light of the one evacuee who was discovered to be infected days after arriving despite having tested negative on the plane. Certainly doesn't instill much confidence in the preventive measures touted by the government.

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USNinJapan2 Today  08:38 am JST

The necessary legal steps include legislation. Actually, their plan objectively isn't going that badly. I don't hear of anybody from Flight 2 refusing, so basically we are down to 1 in over 400.

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