USFJ Reports 47 Personnel Test Positive for COVID-19
Japan’s has seen a recent surge in coronavirus cases which includes USFJ personnel:
AKIFUMI ISHIKAWA/STARS AND STRIPES
U.S. Forces Japan reported 47 COVID-19 patients at 10 installations across Japan on April 27.
Sasebo Naval Base, on the southern island of Kyushu, reported via Facebook on Sunday that two people tested positive during a medical screening and were quarantined.
The Marine Corps had three new COVID-19 patients between Saturday and Monday, one each at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and Camps Hansen and Courtney, according to a Facebook post by Marine Corps Installations Pacific on Monday.
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Are their tests accurate? Elon Musk claimed the US-based tests were at best 50% accurate.
Japan’s medical system has collapsed as patients are dying in their own homes due to the lack of beds in hospitals.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/22/national/osaka-patients-dying-home/
Ironic because the Japanese government is pulling 500 medical personnel from COVID treatment centers and forcing them to help out with the Olympics (Olympics during these times… what a sickening joke) which is increasingly looking like another 1936 Berlin propaganda Games to convince the world that Fukushima nuclear disaster is supposedly all cleaned up and that is no longer an issue.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/may/03/japan-nurses-voice-anger-at-call-to-volunteer-for-tokyo-olympics-amid-covid-crisis
But USofA pull a blind eye, supporting and siding with the disgusting right-wing Japanese government, because they need Japan’s support to fight China, not to mention all the Japan money and lobbying of US politicians that went into their effort too.