Japanese PM Suga gets Covid shot ahead of Biden meeting

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The 72-year-old is the country's first government official to be publicly inoculated. FMTNews Covid19

Yoshihide Suga receives his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Tokyo today.

Some 80 to 90 officials will be vaccinated before heading to the US early next month, where Suga will become the first world leader to meet Biden since he became president.A doctor checked his eyes and throat before he received the shot in his left arm. Taro Kono, the minister in charge of Japan’s vaccine effort, has focused getting the vaccine to healthcare workers and those over the age of 65.

 

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