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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
National
Kisho Hamada and Ayaka Ueno / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers

Slow going for workplace booster shots

The Yomiuri Shimbun A man gets the third shot of COVID-19 vaccine at a workplace vaccination site, in this photo taken on Feb. 24 in Osaka. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Progress remains slow in administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccine at workplace inoculation sites.

To raise the overall vaccination rate in Japan, the government moved up the date for starting booster shots at workplaces by about two weeks. Despite this move, however, only 1.54 million doses were administered in the first five weeks, just a quarter of the number over the same period after workplace vaccinations started last June.

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