Japan’s COVID-19 vaccine push ahead of Olympics looks to be too late

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The Olympics risk becoming an incubator for ‘a Tokyo variant,’ as thousands descend on – and potentially mix with – a largely unvaccinated Japanese population

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Hiro Komae/The Associated PressThat’s the realization sinking in as Japan scrambles to catch up on a frustratingly slowdrive less than two months before the Summer Olympics, delayed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, are scheduled to start.

“Vaccinations under the current pace are not going to help prevent infections during the Olympics,” Tokyo Medical Association Chairman Haruo Ozaki said. “The Olympics can trigger a global spread of different variants of the virus.” “By using a new weapon called vaccines and taking firm preventive measures, it is fully possible” to hold the Olympics safely, Suga told a parliamentary session Tuesday.

Inoculations for the elderly, who are more likely to suffer serious problems when infected, started in mid-April, but were slowed by initial supply shortages, cumbersome reservation procedures and a lack of medical workers to give shots.But there are signs of improvement. The vaccine supply has increased and despite earlier expectations of a hesitant response to vaccines in general, senior citizens fearful of the virus are rushing to inoculation sites.

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