US military makes vaccine progress in Japan, South Korea amid coronavirus resurgence
An airman assigned to the 51st Fighter Wing receives the one-shot Jannsen COVID-19 vaccine at Osan Air Base, South Korea, March 11, 2021.
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By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 7, 2021
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. U.S. Forces Korea and three military commands in Japan have announced plans to expand their vaccination programs to anyone 18 and older who is eligible in the military health care system. Meanwhile, Japan’s second most populous prefecture on Wednesday reported its highest one-day total of new coronavirus patients. Osaka prefecture announced another 878 newly infected people, exceeding the previous one-day record, 719, set Tuesday, according to public broadcaster NHK and prefectural data.
US military makes vaccine progress in Japan, South Korea amid coronavirus resurgence
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Coronavirus revival among US troops on Okinawa enters a fourth week
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By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 1, 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 U.S. military bases in the Far East reported 18 new coronavirus patients as of 6 p.m. Thursday, some dating to March 21. Japan reported another 1,937 people with COVID-19, the coronavirus respiratory disease, on Wednesday, according to the World Health Organization. Tokyo reported 475 people newly infected with the coronavirus Thursday, according to public broadcaster NHK. The Marine Corps reported three individuals on Okinawa tested positive for the coronavirus Wednesday: two at Camp Foster and one at Camp Hansen, according to a Facebook post. On Thursday, the Marines reported seven more: four at Foster, and one each at Camps Hansen, Courtney and Kinser.
By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: March 11, 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. The U.S. military in South Korea said it received 9,700 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday and started to administer it immediately. Twenty percent of the 58,000 people in the U.S. Forces Korea community were already inoculated when the new doses, also called the Janssen vaccine, arrived, command spokesman Col. Lee Peters said Thursday on American Forces Network Radio.