Japan’s rising COVID crisis means Mayu will miss Mum for Christmas

She said hotel quarantine was very different in Japan than in Australia.

“In Australia, governments take us to hotels for quarantine. In Japan we have to find a hotel by ourselves,” she said.

She described Japan’s COVID-19 outbreak as “very bad”.

“Last week Tokyo had 800 new cases just in one day,” she said.

“It is quite bad because they don’t have any lockdown.”

“Japan’s situation was very, very bad. Everyone was moving at that time. I thought if I went to the airport and take the plane it was very risky to get COVID,” Ms Kumagai said.

“I am fine to get COVID. But I don’t want to bring any virus to Japan, to my family.

To get to the town of Aomori on Japan’s most-northern tip of Honshu, she needs to take a train after flying into Tokyo.

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