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The number of people vaccinated with the third dose of the new crown vaccine in Japan accounts for 65.7% of the country's total population

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According to the Japan Broadcasting Association TV, the latest data released by the Japanese government on the 17th showed that the number of people who completed the third dose of the new crown vaccine in Japan was 82755821, accounting for 65.
7% of
the country's total population.

Data show that the number of people who have completed the first dose of the new crown vaccine in Japan accounts for 81.
4% of the country's total population; The number of people who have completed the second dose accounts for 80.
4%
of the country's total population.
In Japan, the fourth dose has been administered to people over 60 years old and people over 18 years old with underlying medical conditions since May, and about 37,202,300
people have completed the fourth dose.

Japan has accelerated vaccination of new vaccines
against the Omicron strain.
According to reports, from the 17th, Japan has set up vaccination sites in enterprises, universities and other places to carry out "workplace vaccination"
.
According to the timetable set by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, some vaccination sites were originally scheduled to start vaccination on
the 24th of this month.

According to the report, from the afternoon of the 17th, All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines will start new vaccinations for pilots and flight attendants at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, with up to 300 people per day and Japan Airlines vaccinating up to 200 people
per day.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has said it plans to launch "workplace vaccinations"
of new vaccines at more than 700 vaccination sites nationwide.

According to TBS News Network, in response to the "8th wave" of the new crown epidemic and the superimposed influenza epidemic this winter, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government held an expert meeting on the same day to discuss improving the new crown virus testing capacity
.
Masataka Inoguchi, vice president of the Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Association, said that according to government estimates, at the height of the epidemic this winter, there will be up to 750,000 fever patients in the country a day, while the current testing capacity of Tokyo is about 60,000 per day, and it is necessary to improve testing capacity
.

According to statistics from Japan Broadcasting Association TV, there were 29,662 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Japan on the 16th, with a cumulative total of more than 21.
75 million confirmed cases; There were 47 new deaths, and the cumulative number of deaths exceeded 45,000.

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