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By ERICA EARL | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 29, 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 – As Japan’s coronavirus cases continued to surge on Thursday, some U.S. military bases there and in South Korea announced they would resume administering the one-dose vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson as soon as Friday. Meanwhile, seven people associated with U.S. Forces Korea tested positive for the virus between April 7 and April 23, the command announced via Facebook on Thursday. No new cases had been reported by bases in Japan as of 6 p.m. ....
By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 27, 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 – The U.S. military in Japan reported another six people, all in Okinawa, had contracted the coronavirus as of 6 p.m. Tuesday. As coronavirus case numbers fall to single digits at its bases, U.S. Forces Japan expects to put the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine back into circulation now that federal authorities and the Pentagon have cleared it for use. ....
. TOKYO – U.S. military bases in Japan and South Korea that scheduled vaccination clinics with the Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine either canceled or rearranged their calendars after the government halted the shot’s distribution. The Defense Department ordered a temporary stop to inoculations with the Johnson & Johnson, or Janssen, vaccine following six cases, one fatal, in the United States of a type of blood clot deemed “rare and severe” by public health authorities. At Misawa Air Base, 35th Fighter Wing commander Col. Jesse Friedel announced last week the first opportunity for people in the so-called tier two that includes the general population to get vaccinated. The base had received 1,900 doses of Johnson & Johnson, he said. ....
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By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 17, 2020 Twenty-two inches of snow has delayed a Patriot Express flight out of Misawa Air Base in northern Japan, forcing passengers to lay over in a building set aside for coronavirus quarantine, an Air Force spokesman said Thursday. More than 200 soldiers, sailors and airmen due to fly on the government-contracted passenger flight had been stranded at Misawa for 72 hours, according to a message posted Thursday on the popular Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook group. “When we aren’t crammed into the passenger terminal unable to socially distance, we’re sleeping in a condemned dorm for covid positive individuals with no working heat in zero degree weather!!!” the post, attributed to the group’s inbox, read. ....