India, Peru and the U.S. states of Florida, Michigan, Minnesota and Tennessee have been added Wednesday to the government's list of countries and regions with community transmission of coronavirus variants of concern.
This raises the number of countries subject to new quarantine measures during border control to 32.
Novel coronavirus variants suspected of causing a rapid increase in the number of infections are spreading in India.
At airport quarantine in Japan so far, 20 people have tested positive with the so-called Indian variant.
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