Japan minister warns of slower pace of COVID vaccine shots for elderly

Inoculations of Japan's elderly against the novel coronavirus will start in April as planned but at a slower pace, the minister in charge of the inoculation rollout said Sunday as the country received its second shipment of Pfizer Inc.'s vaccine.Citing what he said was a delay until May of a production capacity increase by Pfizer, Taro Kono, the administrative and regulatory reform minister, said supply of the vaccine "will be very limited until April," adding, "We will start (vaccination of the elderly) little by little and expand it slowly."Japan last Wednesday started inoculating an init…READ FULL ARTICLE