By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 12, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. TOKYO – New coronavirus cases continued to appear at relatively high levels in Japan’s two largest urban areas, but the U.S. military reported only three new infections between 6 p.m. Friday and the same time Monday. Sasebo Naval Base, on Kyushu island in southern Japan, had three people test positive Friday, the base announced via Facebook on Monday. One person fell ill with symptoms of COVID-19, the coronavirus respiratory disease, and two were close contacts of previously identified COVID-19 patients.
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Col. Patrick Miller authorized a slight loosening of restrictions Wednesday during a Wright-Patterson coronavirus town hall.
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE Gatherings of up to 50 people are back on at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, per the March 3 coronavirus town hall by 88
th Air Base Wing Commander Col. Patrick Miller. As the base surges ahead in the fight against COVID-19, low COVID numbers and high numbers of administered vaccines warrant a small loosening of restrictions on the installation.
Wright-Patterson’s numbers of hospitalizations, ICU cases, and COVID-positive cases are trending downward, mirroring state and area numbers, according to the commander. As such, the base is “in the right place to open things up a bit,” Miller said. “We are heading in the right direction.”