An employee of All Nippon Airways Co. receives a novel coronavirus jab at Haneda Airport on June 13. (Yasuhiro Sugimoto)
All Nippon Airways Co. on June 13 became the first Japanese business to begin a company-wide inoculation campaign against the novel coronavirus, ahead of the government s initially planned June 21 start.
The carrier began administering prioritized vaccinations to pilots and cabin attendants serving international flights who wanted to get vaccinated at its Tokyo office at Haneda Airport.
ANA’s campaign comes as the government steps up calls for inoculations across the business sector, part of a larger effort to swiftly vaccinate as many as people as possible, not just health care workers and senior citizens.
All Nippon Airways Co. on June 13 began its COVID-19 vaccination program for employees at Tokyo s Haneda airport, moving up the original schedule by more than a week.
The government says it has decided to ban planes operated by any Belarusian airline from landing in Japan after the Eastern European country forced a civilian plane to land and arrested a dissident journalist on board last month.