9 Feb 2022
International students waiting another year to study in Japan
To Japan now where Omicron is spreading rapidly through the population. The government's being accused of resting on its laurels after all but eradicating the Delta variant of Covid-19, and being too slow with the booster campaign to prepare for Omicron. Our correspondent in Tokyo Chris Gilbert is one of the 90-thousand people a day who are catching Covid at the moment. He began by explaining how Omicron means about 140-thousand foreign students have to postpone their studies for another year.