Japan to begin COVID booster shots for general public sooner

COVID-19 booster shots for Japan's general public will start sooner than initially scheduled amid a surge of new cases driven by the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, the health minister said Thursday.The government will shorten by one month the interval between the second and third vaccination shots for people aged 18 to 64 from the current eight months, and by one month for those over 64 to six months in principle, Shigeyuki Goto told reporters.The change is likely to present municipal governments, which are responsible for carrying out the inoculation drive, with the da…READ FULL ARTICLE