A major lapse in precautions led to a COVID-19 outbreak last year that ravaged a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Army battalion and demonstrated how the illness could rapidly degrade readiness, according to a recent report in the military’s monthly medical journal.
All of the U.S. forces in Japan had exempted their personnel from testing for novel coronavirus infections upon departure from the United States since Sept. 3 in line with U.S. policy, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi says.
Military Deployed to Help Manitoba; Trudeau Supports Search for COVID 19 Origin
Members of the military are being deployed to Manitoba where surging COVID-19 cases have overwhelmed the healthcare system, while the prime minister has put his support behind international efforts to understand how the global pandemic began.
“I know there are a lot of theories out there but we need to make sure we are getting to a full and complete airing of the facts to actually understand what happened,” Justin Trudeau said Thursday.
United States President Joe Biden ordered intelligence officials there Wednesday to redouble efforts to investigate the origins of COVID-19, including any possibility the trail might lead to a Chinese laboratory.
DoD has vaccinated nearly 300,000 civilians for COVID-19 February 17 Federal employees, contractors and military beneficiaries at the Department of Defense have been steadily receiving COVID-19 vaccines based on job roles and vulnerability to the disease. (Senior Airman Abbey Rieves/Air Force) The Department of Defense is approaching the one million milestone for COVID-19 vaccination doses, as Maj. Gen. Jeff Taliaferro, the Joint Staff’s vice director for operations, confirmed to members of the House Armed Services Committee Feb. 17. As part of those administered doses, 273,939 civilian DoD employees, contractors and beneficiaries have received at least the initial COVID-19 vaccine dose, a Pentagon spokesperson told Federal Times, with 111,431 of those people fully vaccinated against the virus. There was no specific data available on how much of that number is spread between DoD feds, contractors or military beneficiaries.