Japan to administer COVID vaccine to children under 12 in March

Japan plans to expand the scope of COVID-19 inoculation to children under the age of 12, possibly in March, to cope with another wave of infections amid the rapid spread of the coronavirus Omicron variant, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other officials said Tuesday.The government will reopen mass vaccination centers run by the Self-Defense Forces in Tokyo and Osaka in February at the earliest to administer third shots, Defense Ministry officials said.By reopening the centers, which were set up in the two cities last year and administered a combined 1.96 million shots to those aged 16 or o…READ FULL ARTICLE