On Friday, the Japanese government agreed to lift their travel ban for China, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Singapore from the COVID-19 pandemic.

It has also agreed to exclude, under certain circumstances, Japanese citizens and foreigners from two-week quarantines with residence permits after short visits to any country or region.

At the meeting of its headquarters, the government agreed to alter responses to the latest coronavirus at the office of the Prime Minister.

"We'll prevent an explosive spread of infections," Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told the meeting.

"On top of that, we will resume social and economic activities and revive the economy," he said.

It is the first time for Japan to lift its coronavirus travel bans.

Japan is now banning travel from Jordan and Myanmar, where there are growing instances of infection.

These adjustments are to be introduced on Sunday.

If a viruses detection test on return indicates a clear result and they do not use public transportation for two weeks after they return, and if they apply their activity plans for two weeks, Japanese residents, and foreigners with residency allowances who fly outside the country for up to seven days will be exempted from the two-week isolation.

In anticipation of changes in travel bonds, the Foreign Minister has downgraded the travel alerts for infectious diseases to Level 2, which suggests that non-essential travel be avoided, from Level 3 to Level 2.

Japan lifted the general level 2 travel alert for the entire world in preparation for potential Japanese people's departure from abroad by closing domestic borders amid the coronavirus crisis.

The Government intends to enable travellers from many parts of the world to travel to Japan for business up to 3 days by submitting evidence of a negative coronavirus test result and plans for their stay.

Such a move was not decided this time, however, due to the resurgence of the virus in Europe and elsewhere.

The coronavirus headquarters also discussed future measures to combat the disease in light of a slight increase in domestic coronavirus cases.

Suga said the government will focus on prevention measures mainly in busy commercial districts if infection clusters occur.

"We'll contain infections through large-scale and focused testing," he said.