Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s goal of having Japan administer at least 1 million COVID-19 booster shots per day has not been reached about three weeks after he declared the target.
There has not been major progress in the booster shot rollout for elderly people and under 20% of the country’s population have received booster shots.
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