US issues Japan travel caution over Covid surge
The US has issued a travel warning for Japan over the country's Covid-19 surge, amid heightened scrutiny simply just weeks prior to the Tokyo Olympics.
But US Olympic officials have said they are confident their sports athletes will be able to participate safely in the Games.
Japan already bans most travellers from entering the country.
It longer had low numbers of Covid cases but is currently seeing a fresh wave of infections pressing the healthcare program in some places to its limit.
Japan has recorded more than 700,000 attacks and 12,000 Covid-19 deaths from the virus.
The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) said "travellers should avoid all travel" to the country, warning that in the "current situation in Japan even fully vaccinated travellers may be at risk so you can get and spreading" Covid variants.
Largely due to the global pandemic, the US currently has 151 countries at level four, its finest alert level, including almost all of Europe where large sports events just do it less than special Covid restrictions.
Japan currently does not allow any travelers or business travellers into the country for concern with new strains of the virus. The Japanese ban includes people from the US being "denied authorization... unless there are remarkable circumstances".
Large places are currently under circumstances of emergency to provide regional authorities more power to enforce methods against the pandemic.
Regardless of the growing crisis, the Tokyo Olympics remain scheduled to go ahead on 23 July after having been postponed from this past year.
Public opinion on the united states has seen a the greater part of people calling for the Games to be cancelled though, or postponed a second period. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has ruled out both those options.
