Testing positive for COVID-19 on arrival
Oct 7, 2020 | 10:25 pm
#16
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https://www.forth.go.jp/keneki/nagoy...uarantine.html
In short, if you're a gaijin and test positive, you go get medical eval followed by additional medical treatment and/or quarantine at a Covid 'accommodation', then return to the airport upon completion of the treatment/isolation to go through the arrival immigration.
Oct 7, 2020 | 10:27 pm
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It's even better if the test can be done without leaving one's car.
Oct 7, 2020 | 11:37 pm
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This is the official info. Mind you this is for NGO, but I don't see why the algorithm wouldn't be any different at TYO.
https://www.forth.go.jp/keneki/nagoy...uarantine.html
In short, if you're a gaijin and test positive, you go get medical eval followed by additional medical treatment and/or quarantine at a Covid 'accommodation', then return to the airport upon completion of the treatment/isolation to go through the arrival immigration.
https://www.forth.go.jp/keneki/nagoy...uarantine.html
In short, if you're a gaijin and test positive, you go get medical eval followed by additional medical treatment and/or quarantine at a Covid 'accommodation', then return to the airport upon completion of the treatment/isolation to go through the arrival immigration.
Oct 8, 2020 | 4:24 am
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I don't know about that. I've been on several flights this summer... some of them felt safe, others were more disconcerting. All depends on how densely occupied your vicinity is and how good your neighbors are. My last flight was SEA-LAX, middle seats blocked but probably 2/3 full, my neighbor had mask off 1/3 of the flight while clutching the snack bag and water bottle. Deplaning was the worst as, despite PA request to not do so, everyone just stood up and crowded the aisle as soon as we parked... I don't know that the HEPA purifier continues to crank after you're parked at the gate.
People take their masks off to eat/drink, some won't cover their noses. Even with no one right next to you, there could be a dozen or more people seated within 5-6 foot radius from you if you fly economy. With a TPAC flight, you're talking 10+ hours. I'd like to think the risk is still low, and I won't stop traveling. But flying (esp economy) is probably not recommended for risk-adverse people in Covid era.
People take their masks off to eat/drink, some won't cover their noses. Even with no one right next to you, there could be a dozen or more people seated within 5-6 foot radius from you if you fly economy. With a TPAC flight, you're talking 10+ hours. I'd like to think the risk is still low, and I won't stop traveling. But flying (esp economy) is probably not recommended for risk-adverse people in Covid era.
Internationally, at least on JL and NH who I have flown transpac in the past month, people wear masks all the time. Eating is a short part of the flight. The rest of the time masks are on. There is extremely generous spacing in the back, but I choose to sit up front for even better spacing. That and the fact I had surgery in the US and needed to be horizontal to avoid excess swelling and the subsequent pain and possible stitches popping.
Loads for SFO for example are 1-2 in F, 7-10 in business, and 35-50 in econ. Those are not percentages, those are people.
In the back, in the middle, and in the front there is the same filtration system, recycling all air every few minutes. There is not opportunity for particulates to hang around and cause extended breathing in of germs.
If people have been on FT for any period of time whatsoever they know how to get front of the bus seats at back of the bus prices. There really is no reason to even fly back there. That said, if you do, on a transpac flight on a Japanese airline, the risk is likely less than at your pwn home interacting with family members each of whom may have different interactions outside of the home.