Island nation’s rollout started slowly but has progressed quickly
Terumi Kamisawa receives a Covid-19 vaccination in Tokyo, Japan, March 5 2021. Picture: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/REUTERS
The island nation’s progress now puts the US last among G7 nations when it comes to the proportion of the population with at least one dose, after vaccine hesitancy squandered the country’s head start. About 63.1% of the US has had at least their first shot, and 53.8% are fully vaccinated. The vaccination rollout in Japan started off slow and late compared to other developed nations, but has progressed quickly since early summer. Japan hit 1-million shots administered per day in mid-June, and has stuck around that pace since then while battling a wave of infections driven by the predominance of the Delta variant. The US, meanwhile, got a head start but has not been able to maintain pace.
As shots in Japan are still being delivered at a brisk pace, it is too early to tell how much hesitancy may affect the vaccination programme in the country, which has a testy history with vaccines.
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