Baggage claim at the airport Tokyo Narita became a hotel. It was divided into small Seating areas, each of which is essentially a cardboard box. They offer a place to sleep arriving international passengers awaiting test results for coronavirus. Reported by Forbes.
Governments in Asia are increasingly worried about local transmission of cases of coronavirus recorded after residents returned home from Europe and North America.
Cardboard bed is a place to wait for arriving passengers, who have no opportunity to leave the airport by private car.
To limit the possible spread of the coronavirus, the government of Japan prohibits passengers to use public transport and taxis.
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Cardboard beds «pretty good», shared the experience of a passenger who arrived at Narita with All Nippon Airways flight from Vietnam. He had to spend one day in this makeshift accommodation.
He said that sleep was difficult as the General light in the room was included. The beds have walls, but mostly they are open. Passengers were provided with drinks and snacks, including rice balls.
Passengers in Narita who receive a negative test result, still asked not to use public transport. They can go to the sister hotel, rent a car or ask someone to pick them up.
Japan can only ask their citizens about the voluntary self-isolation for 14 days. The Constitution does not allow for forced quarantine.
Narita is one of the main international gateway of Japan. Japan chose Narita and Osaka Kansai, as the two airports to serve arriving flights from China and Korea.
Cardboard beds in recent years in Japan use in emergency situations (earthquakes and typhoons). The Central government last year decided to make more than 1000 cardboard beds.
