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US naval base near Tokyo reports six new coronavirus infections

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Yokosuka Naval Base reported six new coronavirus cases since Friday, and two more were reported at U.S. bases on Okinawa.
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. The U. S. military in Japan reported eight new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday while the capital city’s count climbed above 200 again. Yokosuka Naval Base, southwest of central Tokyo, reported six new cases since Friday, according to a base news release. Two more were reported at U. S. bases on Okinawa. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced 236 new infections, according to public broadcaster NHK. That brings the pandemic total in the city of 13 million to 19,846. The new case numbers Wednesday in Tokyo exceeded the low this week of 95 on Monday but are still below the most recent high of 339 on Aug.20. At Yokosuka, four people tested positive after close contact with someone already infected and two tested positive in quarantine after recently arriving in Japan, according to the release.

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