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Japan to receive 100 million doses of Pfizer vaccine by June as Tokyo 2020 looms Friday, 12 March 2021
Japan is to receive 100 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by June - one month before the Olympic Games get underway in Tokyo.
According to
Kyodo News, Vaccine Minister Taro Kono revealed Japan would receive nearly 1.8 million vials of the vaccine, which could yield up to roughly 10.7 million doses, per week in May.
Shipments would then increase further in June.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine requires two doses.
As a result, the 100 million doses of the vaccine should be able to inoculate 50 million people, nearly half of the Japanese population.