11 people infected with new coronavirus variant in suspected east Japan cluster
February 6, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
In this March 1, 2019 file photo, the Saitama Prefectural Government building is seen in the city of Saitama. (Mainichi) Eleven people in Saitama Prefecture north of Tokyo have been infected with a new coronavirus variant found in Britain though none of them have a history of travel to the United Kingdom, the prefectural government announced on Feb. 5. Ten of the infected people, including six children aged under 10, were all connected to a facility for children under that age. The other infected person was a woman in her 30s living with a male family member in his 30s who had already tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Cameras sent into stratosphere by Japanese students found 8 yrs later, show Earth s beauty The Mainichi
Eight years ago, a group of eight high schoolers in central Japan attached a smartphone equipped with two cameras and a GPS to a weather balloon and let it go. It went up and up and. disappeared. In November this year, the cameras were found in the woods near Tokyo, revealing their 32-kilometer trip into the stratosphere and the blue curve of Earth against the blackness of space.
The eight teens launched the weather balloon in November 2012 as part of a class project at their high school in Iida, Nagano Prefecture. To avoid dense settlements and airports, the students released the balloon in the town of Eiheiji, Fukui Prefecture, two prefectures to the west of Nagano. They expected the smartphone rig to parachute back to Earth after the balloon burst in the stratosphere, landing in or around Moka, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo. But things did not go t