Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa reported record daily numbers of COVID-19 cases on Saturday (Jan 15), fueled by the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
Okinawa, which hosts 70 per cent of US military facilities in Japan, said it recorded 1,829 new coronavirus cases on Saturday.
The governor of the prefecture, Denny Tamaki, previously said he was “furious” about what he called inadequate infection controls at US bases that allowed the variant to spread to the public.
Japan has since stepped up coronavirus restrictions in three regions that host US military facilities, which have also announced stricter infection controls.
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