USFK Announces New COVID Restrictions Regardless of Vaccination Status

There may be a new general in charge of USFK, but the same COVID playbook is being used:

 The U.S. military in South Korea reimposed a mandatory mask policy and restricted travel to Seoul as the nation recorded another record-breaking number of coronavirus cases Friday.

The U.S. Forces Korea directive, which lasts through July 23, came as the South Korean government announced 1,316 new patients Friday, bringing the country’s number of known infections to 165,344.

“To protect our communities and our mission, we are implementing an immediate, aggressive approach to prevent the virus’ spread any further,” USFK commander Gen. Paul LaCamera said in a statement. (…..)

Seoul reported 583 cases Wednesday, the highest number of daily transmissions there since the pandemic began. There were 503 new patients on Friday.

Travel to Areas I and II, which includes the Seoul metropolitan area, is limited to mission-essential and official duties for USFK personnel until the directive expires. The command also reimposed a requirement that everyone wear masks while indoors on military installations, regardless of whether they are fully vaccinated.

Those who have been vaccinated will be allowed to remove their masks while “actively” exercising in on-post gyms, as long as they observe social distancing measures, according to the USFK statement.

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You can read more at the link, but bars and clubs remain off limits to US personnel as well.

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Flyingsword
Flyingsword
3 years ago

Leadership are liars, anti-vax, anti-science idiots. Also none of the recent so called positive tests had any symptoms. All just tested due to going or coming out of quarantine…or around one of these people. No one went to test because they felt ill.

Korean Man
3 years ago

Have you ever thought of testing your mental ability, Flyingsword?

2IDDoc
2IDDoc
3 years ago

I think you give the current crop of stars more credit than they deserve. They are so afraid of being relieved of command for real or imagined failures that they only take orders like good young privates. I’m certain the mask mandate & other restrictions were given from leadership above him.

setnaffa
setnaffa
3 years ago

Like I regularly lament, our recent ten-cent trolls just don’t measure up. They’re so lame it hurts my feelings.

I say “they” because the “Korean Man” tag is obviously used by multiple knuckleheads, each one less mature and capable of posting pithy prose than the previous.

Kinda stultifying…

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