한편 일본 방위성은 아프리카 동부 소말리아를 거점으로 해적 대처 임무를 수행 중인 다국적부대인 '제151연합임무부대' 사령부에 파견된 20대 남성 해상자위대원 1명이 이날 코로나19 확진 판정을 받았다고 발표했다.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that a male Maritime Self-Defense Forces member in his 20s dispatched to the command of the 151st Combined Mission Force, a multinational unit that is conducting piracy countermeasures based in Somalia in eastern Africa, has been diagnosed with COVID-19 on the same day.