By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 19, 2021 TOKYO U.S. commands in Japan reported 39 new cases of the coronavirus between 6 p.m. Friday and the same time Monday, all of them on Okinawa, where the virus resurged in March. One new coronavirus patient turned up at a Defense Department school on Kadena Air Base, according to a message Monday from the principal to students’ families and school staff. Contact tracing is underway, wrote Principal Lorri Vallone of Bob Hope Primary School, and as a result “Ms. Russell and Ms. Kaczynski’s classrooms will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday.” The spring surge also continued in Osaka prefecture, which reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 patients for six days straight through Sunday and another 719 on Monday, according to public broadcaster NHK and prefectural data.
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