{"id":146728,"date":"2022-06-02T13:27:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T04:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=146728&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-06-02T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T04:27:02","slug":"health-checks-decided-on-for-yamakasa-participants","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/health-checks-decided-on-for-yamakasa-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Checks Decided on for Yamakasa Participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year&#8217;s Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival organizers announced guidelines for infection prevention measures and decided to require participants to undergo health checks. The traditional summer festival &#8220;Hakata Gion Yamakasa&#8221; will run the regular events, including the Kaki-Yamakasa will be held. The guidelines require participants to fill out a check sheet two weeks before the event to ensure no abnormalities in their body temperature or physical condition. In addition, they require that they either receive a vaccine or be tested for the new coronavirus. The committee has decided to allow participants to take off their masks while carrying the floats. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20220601\/5010015977.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131705\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-yamakasa-WEB-001.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Health Checks Decided on for Yamakasa Participants\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-yamakasa-WEB-001.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-yamakasa-WEB-001.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-yamakasa-WEB-001.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-yamakasa-WEB-001.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Get Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu area news and events in English <\/b><b>regularly<\/b><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sign up for our <\/span><b>free<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weekly newsletter. Opt out at any time and privacy is protected. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get the \u201cNow\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disclaimer: These summaries are from publicly posted contents. Errors might occur during translation. Images are sourced independently for illustrative purposes and credited appropriately. Use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback or ask for edits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival organizers announced guidelines for infection prevention measures and decided to require participants to undergo health checks. The traditional summer festival &#8220;Hakata Gion Yamakasa&#8221; will run&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":146729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-146728","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-hakata","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/146728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}