Over 70% fully vaccinated in Japan, among top 3 in G-7

Over 70 percent of Japan's population has been fully inoculated against COVID-19, government data showed Tuesday, ranking the country among the top three in the Group of Seven nations after an initially slow vaccine rollout.Of Japan's population of 125 million, 70.1 percent had received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the government.The inoculation rate is now almost on par with Italy, which is second only to Canada, where 72.65 percent of the total population had been vaccinated as of Oct. 16.G-7 members the United States and Britain, which were initially far ahead of Japan i…READ FULL ARTICLE