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Airlines to put on special flights home for Japanese from virus-hit Indonesia
The embassy has started contacting residents to see if they want to take the Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways flight to return to Japan, it said.
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An airport employee works under passenger planes of Japan Airlines at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 31, 2018. Major Japanese carriers All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) on July 31 reported sluggish April-June profits as fuel costs weighed despite higher revenues.
Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)
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apanese airlines plan to put on special flights to allow Japanese residents in Indonesia to return home amid a surge of infections of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta said Wednesday night.
The embassy has started contacting residents to see if they want to take the Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways flight to return to Japan, it said.
An increasing number of Japanese expatriates and family members in Indonesia are returning home amid the surge and a shortage of hospital beds in Indonesia. But many have found it difficult to reserve flights to Japan.
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About 50 expatriates working for Japanese major general contractor Shimizu Corp. and their family members were repatriated Wednesday from Indonesia on a chartered plane.
According to the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta, at least 330 Japanese nationals in Indonesia have contracted the virus as of Wednesday, of which 14 have died.
