{"id":40354,"date":"2022-01-06T18:17:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T09:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/us-troops-okinawa-masks-covid-cases-rise"},"modified":"2022-01-06T18:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T09:17:59","slug":"us-troops-in-okinawa-ordered-to-wear-masks-as-covid-cases-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40354","title":{"rendered":"US troops in Okinawa ordered to wear masks as Covid cases rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military personnel must wear face coverings off base after virus surges among civilians in Japan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US troops in Okinawa prefecture have been ordered to wear masks off base amid criticism that military authorities failed to tackle a fresh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> outbreak among service personnel that has taken hold among the local civilian population in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Okinawa is at the centre of the country\u2019s latest outbreak, with cases surging in recent days from 51 on Saturday to at least 980 on Thursday \u2013 a record daily caseload for the southern island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/us-troops-okinawa-masks-covid-cases-rise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military personnel must wear face coverings off base after virus surges among civilians in JapanCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageUS troops in Okinawa prefecture have been ordered to wear masks off base amid criticism that mil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,88,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40355,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354\/revisions\/40355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}