Japan aiming for 1 million COVID shots a day by end-June – minister

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine as Japan launches its inoculation campaign, at Tokyo Medical Center in Tokyo, Japan February 17, 2021. Behrouz Mehri/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s vaccine programme chief, Taro Kono, said on Tuesday he hoped the daily COVID-19 vaccination rate would hit one million by the end of June.

Around 4.8% of Japan’s population has been fully vaccinated so far, according to a Reuters tracker.

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