Japan Starts Drive To Vaccinate 36 Million Elderly People Against Covid-19 In Time For The Olympics

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Opposition against the games continues to grow despite Japan’s ambitious target to inoculate its 36 million elderly people by the end of July.

report notes that even if the two state-run mass vaccination centers run at full capacity for the scheduled three month period—which stretches past the Olympics’ start date—it’ll only be able to inoculate 900,000 in Tokyo and 450,000 in Osaka, around 10% of the targeted population in the region.

Japanese billionaire and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son has criticized the push to go ahead with the Tokyo games as planned despite public opposition. In a series of tweets, Son

 

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