Japan aims to speed up its inoculation drive to administer 1 million booster shots per day in the latter half of February, in order to stem a new wave of infections spurred by the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday.New cases exceeded 100,000 a day nationwide for the first time last week, but only 5.9 percent of Japan's population of 125 million or about 7.47 million people have received a third shot since the beginning of December as of Monday, according to the government.The percentage is much lower than in Britain, France and …READ FULL ARTICLE
