TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday that his country will quarantine all passengers coming from China and South Korea as the government has amplified efforts to fight the new coronavirus.
"We will strengthen immigration quarantines on people from the two countries," Shinzo Abe told a cabinet-level taskforce meeting on the virus.
"We will ask them to stay in designated areas for two weeks and not to use public transport," Abe added, saying the measures would come into force from March 9.