Japan receives 6th batch of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

The sixth batch of COVID-19 vaccine developed by U.S. pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc. arrived in Japan on Monday as the government continues to inoculate health care workers in the first stage of its vaccination campaign.The shipment of vaccine bottles providing up to 654,615 doses, with six shots available from each bottle, was delivered to Narita airport near Tokyo from the drugmaker's factory in Belgium.The central government is set to deliver Monday's shipment along with some other recently arrived bottles to prefectural governments later this week to provide first and second inoculatio…READ FULL ARTICLE