Misawa Orders Personnel to Shelter in Place After Visitors Test Positive for Coronavirus

June 17, 2020

All personnel at Misawa Air Base in northern Japan were told to shelter in place for 24 hours early Wednesday after members of a visiting aircrew were confirmed to have the coronavirus.

The infected were among “transient air crews” that arrived at Misawa on Monday evening and were all asymptomatic at that time, Col. Kristopher Struve, commander of the base’s 35th Fighter Wing, said in a video posted to Facebook on Wednesday afternoon.

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