Japan will start coronavirus vaccinations next week, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Wednesday, but the country is scrambling to secure suitable syringes so that doses won’t go to waste. Japan is trying to secure enough special syringes that can extract the full six doses from each vial of the Pfizer vaccine. More commonly used syringes can only draw five doses—meaning the last one needs to be discarded. The syringe problem could force the country to forgo enough Pfizer vaccine doses for up to 12 million people, local media estimated. For more updates, here’s Mint Lite.
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