Repost by Becky de Asis/The Redline News
ANKARA – Japan’s anti-coronavirus vaccination campaign is showing results as the capital Tokyo registered the lowest Covd-19 cases in at least one year, authorities said Monday.
The Japanese government revealed that more than 64 percent of the
country’s 126 million population was “fully vaccinated” against the
coronavirus, public broadcaster NHK News reported.
“Over 93.1 million people, or 73.6 percent of the population, have
received their first shots, and that more than 81.4 million people, or 64.3
percent, have had two shots,” the government figures showed.
The data was released on the same day when Tokyo registered 49
coronavirus cases, which is the lowest daily number of cases since June last
year. It is the third consecutive day that the capital registered decreasing
number of coronavirus cases.
Japan is witnessing a “steady decline” in infections across the country
which has reported 1.7 million COVID-19 cases, including 17,941 deaths, so far.
Authorities are also mulling third booster vaccine shots by the end of
this year while the government has secured millions of more vaccines from US
manufacturer Pfizer in a deal signed last week. (Anadolu)
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