Japan will procure enough swine flu vaccine to treat 77 million people and probably start administering it first to medical staff, pregnant women and children starting Oct. 19, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano said Thursday.
The decision is part of the basic vaccination policy adopted Thursday by the government task force set up to deal with the highly infectious H1N1 virus.
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