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Ricky Sanchez
If they receive the Vaccines they do no good if they are not able to distribute them into the arms of the people...
Asiaman7
Please make the vaccine available to those of us who want it. Stop procrastinating, Start vaccinating.
sakurasuki
June? Just one of month before Olympic really start?
While Japan still slow in doing vaccine South Korea made really good progress on vaccination.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/national/science-health/covid-19-japan-south-korea-vaccinations/
dagon
Rollout expanded to 65 and older mid-April, shots for the elderly delivered by the end of June?
Like much of Japan's pandemic response, it does not add up.
The Avenger
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/968413/COVID-19_mRNA_Pfizer-_BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_2.pdf
Derek Grebe
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
Look at this chart. Japan has administered only 500 more shots than Zimbabwe.
Mr Suga, this is unacceptable.
Do your job.
kwatt
Israel is 100% of its population already got the vaccine. China is now about 4%. The US is about 30%. UK is about 40%. Most countries are less or about 10%. I don't mind I take a vaccine next year. It seems no problem as long as I always take a precaution outside.
bokuda
more excuses, more blame on the gaijin.
shogun36
Japan to get 100 million doses of Pfizer vaccine
But only 1 million needles needed to inject said vaccine.
10% of which, some numbskull will ruin through poor handling in their storage facilities.
GW
Sorry I have severe doubts Japan can handle 100mil doses in May\Jun without spoilage
I call this announcement BS!
geronimo2006
It the headline should read 'Japan might get 100 million doses by June if they are lucky. All depending on EU approval and I'm a bit doubtful they will release it while people in the EU are still waiting. Japan should have started making it locally under license quite some time ago. Political inertia.
kohakuebisu
I'll believe this when I see it. The government has constantly failed to achieve testing targets that were announced.
If it actually happens, it is good news. Even if the vaccines do not arrive, the government is responsible for getting a system in place to perform that number of injections. They had better get a move on.
Mark
Well Done, I can't wait till everyone is able to move freely and enjoy this spring and summer, the world had enough of this COVID 19 nightmare.
HimariYamada
10% of which, some numbskull will ruin through poor handling in their storage facilities.
yeah thats the EU for you. More like 50% but heck what can you expect from the west? Only incompetence.
The Eu should be renamed the IU, Incompetence Union.
anon99999
1.Surely the story should say might get.
2.Then there is the issue of enough syringes.
3.And don’t forget the freezers. This is the vaccine that needs the super freezing. How is this going to be delivered to the elderly in the backwaters of the countryside where there clearly never will be any freezers. Will they bus the elderly to prefectural capitals where the freezers are? I believe once they are thawed there is a limited time they can be used but this will require very serious planning to distribute the vaccine to the far reaches of each prefecture AND then arrange to administer the doses to the elderly within the far reaches of each prefecture in that limited time window.
Anyone think all these 3 things are going to be smooth is dreaming. ( and it needs to be done twice for every person) Completion of vaccinations of the elderly quite likely not even completed before the next winter. The rest of the country 2022
HimariYamada
If they receive the Vaccines they do no good if they are not able to distribute them into the arms of the people...
yup go take look at EU:
Why are wealthy European countries wasting AstraZeneca COVID-19 jabs?
https://www.wionews.com/world/why-are-wealthy-european-countries-wasting-astrazeneca-covid-19-jabs-367508
HimariYamada
"Look at this chart. Japan has administered only 500 more shots than Zimbabwe.
Mr Suga, this is unacceptable.
Do your job."
EU follow the contract!
think!
Robert Cikki
Japan to get 100 million doses of Pfizer vaccine by June
Just a few questions:
1) when will we start vaccinating after obtaining the doses (=what is the time frame between receiving them and starting vaccinating)
2) how quickly are we able to make use of them? How quickly can we manage to vaccinate those who want?
3) how quickly can they be distributed?
4) what is the vaccination strategy with them?
I doubt our government will be able to answer this..
i@n
Ok seems vaccine supply is reasonably guaranteed now. Hopefully they can procure enough syringes on time
bokuda
Why the blame to EU?
Did you already finished the 526,500 shots you got?
src: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/01/national/pfizer-third-shipment
The shipment of up to 526,500 doses of the Pfizer shot [...] was delivered to Narita Airport from Belgium, where they were produced.
Samit Basu
100 million dose really means 83.33 million dose in reality, since dosage is based on 6 dose per vial but Japan can extract only 5 dose due to lack of special syringes.
therougou
The announcement is that they will receive 100 million doses, so that is up to Pfizer.
therougou
Did you read the article?
Such syringes, capable of drawing six doses from a vial, will be used to administer the second shots for health care professionals, while typical ones can only extract five doses from a vial. The vaccine for their first shots will be shipped from April 12.
The more efficient syringes will be used for inoculating elderly people as well.
Pukey2
So, this week, we're back down to six doses per vial?
Samit Basu
@pukey2
Pfizer calculates 6 doses per vial.
The problem is that Japan can't extract 6 doses per vial due to incompetent bureaucracy.
therougou
We were never at 7. Teremu is just starting to make the 7 dose syringes. Japan has some that can extract 6, but not enough yet.
therougou
I know you are eager to bash Japan, but just to point out even USA, home of Pfizer, are wasting doses due to lack of these syringes.
Sven Asai
Boring daily announcements...Japan to get this, Japan to get that, write again about it when you really have it. If all announcements added up, we could already now swim in a vaccine ocean....lol
demazin
@HimariYamada
Japan has received 2,376,500 does of the vaccine to date.
Feb 12 400,000
Feb 21 450,000
March 1 526,500
March 8 1,000,000
Yet has only vaccinated 230,542 people.
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/vaccine_sesshujisseki.html
What's happening with the other 2,000,000 doses? The EU contract forcing Japan to keep them in the freezer?
Jandworld
My local gov’t newsletter says we will be starting vacc by midmonth?
Robert Cikki
I've been here for more than 30 years, 20 years as a citizen. I always take such information with a pinch of salt.
That would mean, certain groups will be vaccinated by midmonth, but how many? And how many doses they have? And foreign citizens will come later according to original news.
therougou
Never heard that. In fact, never heard the phrase "foreign citizen". Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Hideomi Kuze
Present Japan's Suga government who wants to raise support rate mere announced optimistic prospect.
the_sicilian
This seems typical of the LDP or whichever oyajis are in charge. More finger poitning, deflection, and not having enough data. Japanese people are just people. People need the vaccine, according to science. Not Japanese science, science. No country has a monopoly on this.
And where are those 2M shots of vaccine at? Japan, get with it. Stop doing things your way and support your people.
MotMotMot
I don't understand why more first world countries aren't making their own stuff. The Pfizer vaccine wasn't created by Pfizer. It was created by a German company with funding from the German government months before Operation Warp Speed was even a thing. In the US and other parts of the world Pharma companies are entering into manufacturing agreements to co-produce more vaccine to get the volumes up. The Japanese government should have been working behind the scenes to broker those deals last year. There's no technical reason why Japan couldn't be producing one of the vaccines locally. It's just a lack of imagination, will to make a new process.