A central Japan city admitted Tuesday it initially gave a pharmacy chain chief and his wife priority bookings for COVID-19 vaccinations, in a revelation likely to anger seniors struggling to make reservations amid Japan's slow vaccine rollout.Yoshihide Kondo, the deputy mayor of Nishio in Aichi Prefecture, apologized at a press conference Tuesday for the "lack of fairness" and said the city has already canceled the reservations for Sugi Holdings Co. Chairman Hirokazu Sugiura, 70, and his 67-year-old wife Akiko.In what would have been special treatment, Sugiura and his wife had been schedule…READ FULL ARTICLE
