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mrtinjp
Japan relies solely on imported coronavirus vaccines, and Pfizer's vaccine is the only one the country has approved so far
And why is Japan unable to produce locally, what are pharma majors like Daiichi Sankyo, Takeda doing, what's the catch..
bokuda
@quercetum Today 08:57 am JST
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North Korea 0 deaths.
Japan do not do autopsies or even count positives of private test centers. The daily PCR tests numbers are a joke.
Even covid patients that die in a hospital won't be count as covid death if they got a negative PCR test before death.
geronimo2006
Sounds a bit desperate. Perhaps a change of strategy is what's needed. Offer to throw in some PS5s and all the Olympic merch they want.
Moskollo
What for? Doesn’t seem like your actually giving anyone the vaccine anyway..
quercetum
Japan doesn’t feel the urgency to take the jab. Most people I talk to in Tokyo don’t want the vaccine for fear of side effects or not wanting to be a part of an experiment. Look at the following numbers Worldometer publishes: COVID-19 number of deaths per one million population.
Taiwan, population 24 million — 0.3
Vietnam, population 98 million — 0.4
Thailand, population 70 million — 1
China, population 1,439 million — 3
Singapore, population 6 million — 5
South Korea, population 51 million — 26
Hong Kong, population 8 million — 22
Japan, population 129 million — 39
Canada, population 38 million — 500
Germany, population 84 million — 626
France, population 65 million — 1,115
Spain, population 47 million — 1,186
USA, population 332 million — 1,288
Italy, population 60 million — 1,410
UK, population 68 million — 1,429
Japan’s figures will have to get a lot worse before people line up to be vaccinated.
n1k1
Is this for trading ? What ? It's not a bad idea !
sf2k
Pfizer manufacturing for the vaccine is in Belgium
Numan
There is a huge Pfizer building in Shinjuku. I wonder if they are producing any of the supplies in the country.
MarkX
thelonius, where is your proof of this? I haven't heard anything about Japan sitting on vaccines. The problem like many countries is that they are not receiving what they have ordered thanks to vaccine nationalism! Bluntly the US is not sharing their vaccines until all or most of their own people are vaccinated. So all of the Pfizer vaccines are coming from the EU factory, that has to try and supply not only the EU but Japan, Canada, Australia etc.
didou
It seems Pfizer is the best vaccine, with Moderna. ie the ARN vaccines. In some countries, other vaccines, developed from adenovirus, are not recommended for healthy people below 55.
Hope Japan will choose Pfizer for most of us.
@Asiaman7
Both are the reasons for delays
dbsaiya
And run another half arsed clinical trial in Japan for the next batch?
happyhere
Couldn't Suga have phoned Pfizer from Japan? Like 6 months ago?
Fanny Greene
Agree with luddite
Luddite
Stop relying on one vaccine and approve others for use.
blackflag
Agree, it seems like they’re building up a supply to ramp up the number of vaccinations per day from after GW is over. Also, I think they are lacking the 6 shot syringes as of now, so inoculating with the 5 shot syringe would mean wasting precious doses. It makes sense, but then again, they could have figured all of this out 2 months earlier like the US and EU did.
sakurasuki
29% that's only initial group that Japan try to inoculate.
Less than 1% being innoculated that's the real one.
thelonius
Actually, Japan has already received millions of doses from the EU that are mostly sitting in freezers.
Rivera
This is Japan style of begging go see the American president and then ask for something from they so call gaijins and when everything turn out okay in the country of Japan they start to compare
Asiaman7
Is vaccine supply the issue? Or is it the failure to rapidly vaccinate after vaccine supply is received?
George Townes
Suga: Joe, got any left over Pfizer vaccine?
Biden: I'll hook you up. I got Al from Pfizer on speed dial.
Suga: You have done a great job with getting Americans vaccinated.
Biden: Why thank you Yoshi. I made it my top priority since taking office. You know you should really focus on this and cancel those Olympics.