4 suspected Omicron cases on Okinawa Island, half of the 21 new infections in the north, 19 of them related to the US Military. (27de21)

On 26 December, Okinawa Prefecture reported confirmation of 1 person testing positive for Covid-19 with the suspicion that the infection is the Omicron strain. In an examination of screening specimens, the Delta strain showed up negative, but that brings the total of people suspected of having the Omicron strain to 4. The Prefecture is moving on to genome analysis and expects the results around 28 December.


In the prefecture, 21 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed among males and females between the ages of 10 and 99. 18 of them have appeared since just last Sunday. By location, half were in northern Okinawa, with 9 in the town of Motobu where the virus is spreading.


As for the new infections suspected of being the Omicron strain, the family of a base worker at the US Military Camp Hansen tested positive for the Omicron strain. At present, the Prefecture is not revealing where the family lives. Up until now in the prefecture, 10 people have been confirmed with the Omicron strain.


In addition, on 26 December, 19 infections were reported with connection to the US Military. Besides 3 from Camp Foster and Kadena Air Base, there are 16 cases under investigation for base connections whose source is as yet unclear.


On 26 December, at an experts panel, Governor Denny Tamaki explained that, on 24 and 25 December, a unit of US troops was bused from Camp Hansen and Camp Schwab to Camp Foster. From there they took taxis to Chatan and Naha where they were let out on the town. The Prefecture had requested that troops and dependents at Camp Hansen all be given PCR tests and confined to base. Governor Tamaki stressed strongly, “Deplorable!” He intends to once again make a request to the Okinawa Defense Bureau to have PCR tests and such done.


At a facility for the elderly in the town of Motobu where a cluster of infections occurred, 4 new positive cases have been confirmed. That brings the total infected at the facility to 30 (22 residents and 8 workers). According to the Prefecture, 24 of them had received the first and second vaccinations.


Original Japanese article: Okinawa Times, published Monday 27 December 2021 at 08:06

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/9033f1e024d208afebc545a3a8174dd7c40dcca5


Translator’s note:

Denny in the News: news about Okinawan Governor Denny Tamaki.

Denny Tamaki is the governor of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. Although Okinawa is important as an international tourist destination and a key element in strategic US Military Forces, its governor receives very little coverage in the Japanese press and almost none in the English language media. 

  1. This blog hopes to  translate one news article a day on the governor.  It is unsponsored and unauthorized. The translator simply hopes to improve his skills and perhaps give the governor an English speaking audience. 

  2. Any suggestion on improving the translation will be gratefully accepted. However, please leave political comments for another forum.

  3. Where they occur, words and phrases in Ryukyuan (the Okinawan language) are rendered in italics and translated in parentheses. Names  whose readings are uncertain are rendered as Name (=Kanji?) as in Nagayuki (=長行?). Any corrections in such instances would be gratefully appreciated.

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