Japan reopens mass vaccination center for COVID booster shots

The Japanese government reopened a mass COVID-19 vaccination center in Tokyo on Monday to speed up administering third shots to cope with the new wave of infections driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.The center, which opened amid criticism that the government has been slow to offer booster shots, is being run by the Self-Defense Forces and will offer people aged 18 or above U.S. pharmaceutical firm Moderna Inc.'s vaccine.Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who visited the site on Monday, said his administration "will explain in detail about the importance of booster shots and the …READ FULL ARTICLE