Severe allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccine appear higher in Japan than US, UK: minister
March 10, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Norihisa Tamura (Mainichi) TOKYO Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Norihisa Tamura told a news conference following a March 9 Cabinet meeting that the number of severe allergic reactions that have occurred following injection of novel coronavirus vaccines appear to be higher (in Japan) than in the U.S. and the U.K. According to the health ministry, medical workers had received some 71,000 injections of novel coronavirus vaccines by March 8, and eight cases of anaphylaxis, or severe allergic responses, were reported. On March 9, there were another nine cases reported. All those who presented with anaphylactic symptoms have improved, but according to regulatory authorities in each country, the prevalence of anaphylaxis in the U.S. has been five cases in every million vaccinations, and in the U.K., one to tw
Disease experts wary after discovery of virus mutation in Japan in Dec. 2020
February 20, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
The Toyama Building that houses the National Institute of Infectious Diseases is seen in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, in this file photo. (Mainichi/Kazuo Motohashi) TOKYO Following the discovery of a number of coronavirus strains in Japan including a mutation of unknown origin, a sense of caution is growing among infectious disease experts concerning the variants, some of which could be more infectious or weaken the body s immune response. On Feb. 19, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases announced that a separate mutant strain of unknown origin had already been confirmed to be in Japan at the start of December 2020. The government is entrusting genome analysis of the strain to a private testing firm, to help strengthen its surveillance system. One expert asserted, We probably won t be able to avoid the spread of variant strains.
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September 3 off the coast on Camp Schwab in Henoko, Nago City (photographed by small drone)
December 18, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 11 the Association of War-Bereaved Families Opposed to War and Praying for Peace held a protest against the plan for collecting soil from the southern part of Okinawa Island and using the soil for land reclamation work in Henoko. The Association sent urgent notices to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, among others, requesting that this plan for soil collection be stopped. Takamatsu Gushiken, the president of the Gamafuya, a volunteer group dedicated to the recovery of remains of the Battle of Okinawa, has been asking the Okinawa Prefectural Government and the Okinawa Defense Bureau to put a stop to this soil collection plan, but this is the first time the Association of War-Bereaved Families has protested and asked for the soil collection to stop.