トンガ派遣隊員がコロナ陽性　出国後に発熱―防衛省

　防衛省は２５日、海底火山の噴火や津波で被災した南太平洋の島国トンガを支援するため、Ｃ１３０輸送機で飲料水の空輸をしていた航空自衛隊員１人の新型コロナウイルス感染が確認されたと発表した。濃厚接触が疑われる２１人と共に隔離している。支援物資の輸送任務に支障は出ていないという。
　統合幕僚監部によると、２４日午前、緊急援助空輸隊として派遣されている３０代の男性隊員が発熱し、抗原検査で感染が分かった。２０日に愛知県の空自小牧基地を出発する際には全員がＰＣＲ検査で陰性を確認していた。隊員らは拠点としているオーストラリアの宿泊施設で隔離されている。（2022/01/25-09:53）

A Japanese Air Self-Defense Force member engaged in a mission to airlift drinking water to disaster-hit Tonga using a C-130 transport aircraft has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Japan's Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
   The ASDF officer and 21 other mission members who are suspected to be close contacts of the infected personnel are being isolated at an accommodation facility in Australia, which is used as a base for the airlift mission, according to the ministry's Joint Staff.
   There has been no impact on the work to transport the water to Tonga, which was recently hit by an undersea volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami, the Joint Staff said.
   The ASDF member in question, in his 30s, developed a fever on Monday morning and was found infected with the coronavirus in an antigen test.
   All members of the mission showed negative results in COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction tests at the time of their departure from the ASDF's Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Thursday.