Vaccination Minister Taro Kono tells AP the speed of Japan’s inoculation campaign is less urgent than getting shots to young people, who are blamed for spreading the virus. He adds Japan is “overshooting” its goal of a million shots a day.
Taro Kono, Japan's minister in charge of a huge vaccination campaign, wearing a face mask speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office in Tokyo Wednesday, July 28, 2021. As Olympics host Tokyo saw another record number of coronavirus cases Wednesday, Kono told that the speed of the inoculation campaign, which is averaging about 10 million shots a week after a late start, is less urgent than getting shots to young people, who are blamed for spreading the virus.
Vaccination Minister Taro Kono told The Associated Press that Japan is “overshooting” its goal of a million shots a day, so “speed doesn’t matter anymore.” Japan is averaging about 10 million shots a week after a late start. Many in Japan fear that the tens of thousands of visitors allowed special entry for the Olympics will cause more huge spikes in cases or a new variant of the coronavirus.and the first time it exceeded 3,000 infections in a day. The new cases exceeded the earlier record of 2,848 set Tuesday and bring the total for the Japanese capital to 206,745 since the pandemic began early last year.
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