Dispatch the Nagasaki Miyagi Self-Defense Force for disaster Support for new corona response Ministry of Defense April 4, 4:20
Following a request from Nagasaki and Miyagi prefectures to respond to the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Defense has newly dispatched the SDF as a disaster to support patient transport and virus testing.
According to the Ministry of Defense, Nagasaki Prefecture transported a woman in her 70s from Iki City infected with the new coronavirus by helicopter of the Maritime Self-Defense Force at around 5:30 pm on March 3.
In Miyagi Prefecture, two doctors and other personnel will be dispatched to medical institutions in Sendai City to support sample collection for virus testing from April 4.
In response to the response to the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Defense has also dispatched the SDF as a disaster in the form of `` voluntary dispatch '' to strengthen border measures, and has been providing quarantine support at Narita Airport from 28th of last month. .