Jan. 9 (UPI) —<\/span> The U.S. Defense Department has agreed to keep its troops on bases in Japan and limit activities off installations in Korea amid surging cases COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n On Sunday, U.S. Forces Japan and the nation’s government announced the rule will take effect Monday and will last for 14 days.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n “The United States and Japan are committed to working together to protect the health of the Japanese people and U.S. service members,” U.S. Force Japan and Japan’s government said in a joint statement Sunday.<\/p>\n The means only essential travel off the military bases.\n<\/p>\n U.S. Forces in Japan is also requiring that all individuals must wear masks when outside their residences, both on and off base.<\/p>\n On Friday, U.S. Forces Korea raised its health protection alert on Friday to “Bravo Plus” peninsula-wide effective Saturday until further notice with off-installation activities seated dining at restaurants, indoor malls, bars, clubs, gyms, amusement parks, theaters, massage parlors, saunas, spas or festivals. Also pleasure travel to Seoul is banned.<\/p>\n South Korea’s cases rose 3,376 Sunday after a record 7,843 on Dec. 15 with 2020’s highest 1,237 on Dec. 25.\n<\/p>\n Japan reported 8,249 cases Sunday, the highest since 8,480 Sept. 11. On Nov. 22 there were only 50 cases.<\/p>\n The nation set record of 25,492 cases on Aug. 21 after the Summer Olympics ended on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n Only seven deaths have been reeported in Japan. South Korea’s deaths rose 361.\n<\/p>\n More than half of the U.S. troops deployed overseas are stationed in Japan with 53,732 and South Korea with 26,416.<\/p>\n Most of the troops are in Okinawa, a southwestern group of islands, that is under renewed public health measures along with Yamaguchi and Hiroshima until Jan. 31.<\/p>\n There are no restrictions in Germany, with 43,911. That nation reported 9,367 cases Sunday and 42,422 Saturday. But Germany is under a nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated, including nonessential services. Large events are all banned.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S. Marines unload a HIMARS from U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules during Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine joint military exercise Resolute Dragon 21 at Japan Maritime Self\u2010Defense Force Hachinohe Air Base in Aomori-Prefecture on December 7. File photo by Keizo Mori\/UPI | License Photo Jan. 9 (UPI) — The U.S. Defense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nU.S. Marines unload a HIMARS from U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules during Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine joint military exercise Resolute Dragon 21 at Japan Maritime Self\u2010Defense Force Hachinohe Air Base in Aomori-Prefecture on December 7. File photo by Keizo Mori\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n