Japan drops blanket halt of inbound flight bookings after criticism

Japan drops blanket halt of inbound flight bookings after criticism

Arriving travelers line up for quarantine at Narita airport near Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2021. Japan retracted the same day its plan to completely halt bookings for inbound international flights in December due to the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus as the step was criticized as going too far.

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