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Kyodo News Agency reported that Vaccination rates against COVID-19 In Japan, moving joker madness forward at full efficiency A week after two large government vaccination centers were opened in Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture.


COVID-19 Vaccination Center Both are operated by the Self Defense Force (SDF) and are scheduled to open three months of vaccination services. Able to mobilize the vaccination target of 10,000 and 50,000 doses per day, respectively. Japan is aiming to complete the vaccination for people aged 65 and over, including those who are turning 65 in the current fiscal year, by July.


The Japanese government has set up a vaccination center to help speed up the vaccination program. In addition to those operated by local governments Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is targeting one million doses of the vaccine nationwide per day after mid-June.


Japan has delayed its vaccination process than many developed countries. Since the start of the vaccination program in February. Only 6% of the 126 million people have already received the vaccine.


However, even with full efficiency But both vaccination centers will be able to vaccinate just 900,000 people in Tokyo and 450,000 in Osaka Prefecture over the three months after it opened.


Seniors in Tokyo and neighboring prefectures such as Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa, as well as Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures can get vaccinated at the centers.


Both large vaccination centers use Moderna vaccines. Local government vaccination centers use Pfizer-Bion Tech vaccines.