Japan to get 100 million doses of Pfizer vaccine by June

Japan is set to receive about 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. across May and June, the minister in charge of vaccination efforts said Friday, enough for nearly half of its population.The shipments from the drugmaker's factory in Belgium will need to be individually approved under the European Union's export controls, Taro Kono said at a press conference.Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has pledged to secure COVID-19 vaccines for Japan's population of 126 million within the first half of 2021.The vaccine developed by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech SE, the only one the he…READ FULL ARTICLE