Tokyo: The Japanese Prime Minister on Monday promised to double the number of Covid-19 booster shots delivered every day throughout the country, because the government faced criticism of the delayed vaccine launch.
Speaking before parliamentary members, Fumio Kishida said the authorities would aim to give around 1 million booster a day at the end of February.
Premier said additional doses were “key” to fight the ongoing surge of omicron infection.
Media polls recently showed that Kishida’s ranking fell for the first time since he served in October, with disapproval of the increasing virus steps and many respondents complained about slow booster vaccination.
His predecessor Yoshihide Suga, was finally forced to resign from mismanagement of felt pandemic action.
Less than 5% of the population has so far received the Third Jambuan Coronavirus vaccine.
Japan launched a booster program in December, after falling behind many other developed countries in distributing the second dose of vaccines.
About 80% of the population completed two shots.
Kishida said his government would aim to record all elderly people who wanted to get their booster shot at the end of February before reaching a younger person in March.
To accelerate the launch of Booster, the Kishida government last week launched a mass inoculation center which was run by the Japanese armed forces in Tokyo, and would open a similar center in Osaka next week.
Officials have asked a large company to start managing Jab at work around mid-February.
The level of vaccination has diminished and infection does not show signs that slow down on Sunday after social blasphemy and restrictions on pandemic restored in most countries.
Japan has refused to impose locking, but asked for shorter hours for bars and restaurants, while imposing tight border closure since November which has banned most of the foreign immigrants.
On Sunday, Japan posted nearly 90,000 new cases for the total accumulation of 3.3 million cases, with more than 19,000 deaths.