• Security personnel keep distance as Russian Communist party supporters take part in a flower-laying ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet state founder and revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin at the Lenin's Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow on Wednesday during a strict lockdown in Russia to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. | AFP-JIJI
    Security personnel keep distance as Russian Communist party supporters take part in a flower-laying ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet state founder and revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin at the Lenin's Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow on Wednesday during a strict lockdown in Russia to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. | AFP-JIJI

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Japan plans to impose an entry ban on travelers who have recently been in Russia and several Middle Eastern countries that have seen a recent surge in coronavirus infections, government sources said Thursday.

Foreign travelers who have been to Russia, the United Arab Emirates or any of some other countries not yet announced within two weeks of arriving in Japan will be denied entry, bringing the number of countries subject to such restrictions to around 80.

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