Universities across Japan are preparing to provide COVID-19 vaccination venues to help accelerate the country's slow inoculation rollout, with government sources speaking Tuesday of a plan to start giving shots at seven state-run schools later this month.
A total of 497 campuses at 350 public and private universities nationwide have said they can offer their facilities as vaccination venues, according to an education ministry tally in May, with some of them already being used at the request of local governments implementing vaccination campaigns.
But some university officials have expressed concern about an influx of vaccine recipients to the campuses that could disrupt classes for students and their club activities.