According to Russian media reports, since the outbreak of the "Aomi Kerong" strain at the end of last year, Japan has implemented extremely strict entry restrictions; it has not only taken the lead in emulating the policies of Britain and France and South Africa and other countries to cut off flights, but also increased dense virus sampling sites throughout the airport and set up long-term isolation sites to block this new strain abroad. Benefiting from these means of control, Japan has indeed performed well in resisting the "Omi Kerong", and in the period from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, the average daily increase in domestic cases was only a few hundred, and most of them were the previous "Delta" type strains, and there was no replacement of the strains.
Unexpectedly, the last thing the Japanese government wants to see is the outbreak of large-scale infections at US military bases, which has set its epidemic prevention policy on fire. Since the beginning of this year, OKINOMA Prefecture and other US military bases have continuously reported a number of cases of new crown pneumonia infection patients, and many US military bases in Japan, such as Yokosuka Base in Kanagawa Prefecture and Iwakoku Base in Yamaguchi Prefecture, have also erupted in the epidemic. Soon the virus spread outside the base, and in less than a week, more than 600 new confirmed cases were in Okinawa Prefecture, higher than the number of new cases in the country at the end of last year. Knowing that it was the US military that brought the "Omicron" virus to Okinawa Prefecture, the local residents complained bitterly, complained to the government, and even found the media to expose the matter, and spread it on the outside network.
Yesterday morning, Japanese Foreign Minister Lin Fang was calling US Secretary of State Blinken to talk mainly about the recent infection of foreign strains in China. Lin Fang is using a "low posture" on the phone to request that the restrictions on the going out of US soldiers, quarantine measures, isolation and other epidemic prevention measures be strengthened to eliminate the uneasiness of the local people. Previously, Japan's "Kyodo News Agency" and other media have confirmed that the import of many cases is the US military deliberately evading the new crown testing measures (US soldiers do not need to follow Japan's epidemic prevention regulations to enter, naturally do not need Japanese testing), the military is also very loose about this, nucleic acid reports can enter before the entry, resulting in large-scale spread of the virus.
However, Blinken was not concerned about this, and he responded directly and briefly that the United States "will cooperate with Japan to take countermeasures as much as possible, because the health of the local population is very important." After saying only this empty sentence without any specific commitment, Blinken began to chat with Lin Fangzheng about topics that the United States "liked": cooperation in the realization of the so-called "free and open Indo-Pacific" concept led by Japan and the United States, and strengthening international and military cooperation among allies... The focus of the two is clearly not on one channel.
It is also worth mentioning that after the spread of US military cases caused local residents to be infected, Okinawa Prefecture Governor Yucheng Danny once angrily rebuked the US military stationed in Japan for ignoring epidemic prevention regulations, causing the rapid spread of the epidemic, and asked the government to cancel the "privilege" that the US military can not cooperate with Japan's epidemic prevention measures, so as to achieve national reunification; but it can be clearly seen that in the phone call that Lin Fang is giving Blinken this time, he does not even dare to mention the relevant words of "THE US military spreading the virus", but only asks the US side to strengthen epidemic prevention measures. Of course, this phone call on the Internet caused dissatisfaction among Japanese netizens, who directly ridiculed the government, "If this is the case, why not cede these places in Okinawa to the United States?" This will allow for border control, and they will have no reason to continue to reject Japan's epidemic prevention regulations. ”