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Marine Corps installations in Japan reported the bulk of the 242 new cases reported by the U.S. military in the country as the winter coronavirus surge increases.
Bar and nightclub ban is ending for fully vaccinated US troops in South Korea by Local bars and nightclubs will no longer be off-limits to fully vaccinated personnel with U.S. Forces Korea starting Friday, May 28, 2021. (Pixabay) A coronavirus-induced alcohol drought is ending for fully vaccinated U.S. personnel on the Korean Peninsula. Starting Friday, local bars and nightclubs will no longer be off-limits to those associated with U.S. Forces Korea – service members, Defense Department civilian workers, contractors and their families – USFK announced Thursday on Facebook. However...
By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: May 3, 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 spring coronavirus surge continued Monday in Japan’s two largest cities, where emergency restrictions dampened the traditional weeklong vacation period for many Japanese. In Osaka prefecture, Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura called on people to stay home during Golden Week, the period ending Wedn...
. 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 fo...
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 n...