Flu quarantine in Japan
A few photos show how it is for some of the people quarantined because they happened to be sitting near H1N1-infected passengers on an airplane (quote from the Yomiuri):
A Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry official asked the man not to leave his the room, except for meals, to wear a sanitary mask and not to touch anything if he had to leave the room.
Hotel employees have been prohibited from entering the travelers’ rooms, so the man cannot get room service, he said.
He said he has to wash his clothes in the bathroom of his room. He puts used towels inside a plastic bag and leaves them outside the room to be picked up by a hotel employee, he added.
For lunch Saturday, he said he had curry rice in what appeared to be a conference room. In the room, about 15 round tables were set at intervals of about three meters apart, apparently to prevent quarantined people from coming into contact with each other and spreading the virus they may possibly be infected with, he said. He sits alone at a table to eat, he said.
For dinner that day, he said he had steak.
He was asked to take his temperature in the morning, afternoon and evening.
A doctor visited him Saturday evening and told him he showed no flu symptoms, he said.
The man said he was in an unfortunate situation, but quarantining him and the other travelers was the only way to prevent the virus from spreading.
Some schools are sending study materials to students stuck in the quarantine.
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