Tokyo governor urges youth to get vaccinated to slow surge

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The governor of Tokyo is urging younger people to cooperate with measures to bring down the high number of infections and get vaccinated, saying their activities are key to slowing the surge during the Olympics.

Koike noted that the majority of the elderly have been fully vaccinated and infections among them have largely decreased, while the mostly unvaccinated younger people are now dominating the new cases.

As of Tuesday, 25.5% of the Japanese population has been fully vaccinated. The percentage of the elderly who are fully vaccinated is 68.2%, or 36 million people.Vaccination prospects for the younger have improved, and some can get their shots organized by work places and colleges, while others still wait based on seniority. But there are also concerns over hesitancy among the young, with surveys showing many of them having doubts, in part due to fake rumors about side effects.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has also urged people to avoid nonessential outings but says there is no need to consider a suspension of the Games, which are held with no fans in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures — Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama.

 

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Good now, but Better weeks or months ago. K. P. Collins

You can still be infected even if you have the vaccine, and for young healthy people there is very low risk of getting seriously sick without the vaccine.

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BREAKING: Tokyo reports 3,177 new coronavirus cases, all-time high since the pandemic began last year and with the Olympics deep into the first week.

They probably would get vaccinated,if enough vaccine was available along with information explaining the vaccine,and if they had side effects they did not have pay for the treatment of said side effects.

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you mean this? What kind of media are you?

thanks

I bet this is because of no masks. Masks. Two masks. I bet. Mask. We like mask. Help everyone no virus.

Lol. The globalist are panicking globally. Don’t get spiked.

ah yes, make someone else pay for your greed

This will fall upon deaf ears.

Damn, it’s come to this, blame the children, smh

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