A single-day record of 235 COVID-19 cases among U.S. forces in Okinawa Prefecture was confirmed Saturday, local officials said, following a cluster infection that broke out last month at one of the U.S. bases there. Whether the cases were of the Omicron variant, a highly transmissible strain, was unknown, as…
The policy change came after the forces were criticized by Japan for exempting their troops from testing for the virus before departing from the United States.
The U.S. forces in Japan now require all of their personnel to test for the coronavirus within 24 hours after their arrival in the country, the Foreign Ministry says, after a cluster infection recently broke out at a U.S. base in Okinawa.
The U.S. forces in Japan have begun testing their personnel for coronavirus infections before departing from the United States, the Japanese government said Monday, after they were found to be exempt from doing so against Japan's border control measures. The gap in antivirus steps came to light after a group…