TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan is making an aggressive move to grab enough coronavirus vaccine to inoculate its population four times over, a push the government hopes will instil confidence that it can host a delayed summer Olympics next year.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - Japan is making an aggressive move to grab enough coronavirus vaccine to inoculate its population four times over, a push the government hopes will instil confidence that it can host a delayed summer Olympics next year.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the top government spokesman, said Japan was working with Olympic organisers on how to go ahead with the Games, tying the effort to the need to secure a vaccine. "You have to bet evenly to avoid getting nothing," said Tomoya Saito, director at Japan's National Institute of Public Health.
Japanese officials have discussed putting on a"simplified"Games, originally expected to attract 600,000 visitors.Given the size of the events and people coming from all over the world, holding the Olympics require"mass quantities of an effective vaccine," said Kenji Shibuya, director of the Institute of Population Health at King's College, London.
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