19.3% of Japan population received booster shot: gov't

The Japanese government said Monday that 19.3 percent of the country's population has received the third COVID-19 vaccine dose, with 49 percent of its elderly population vaccinated, as the country grapples to contain the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.The pace of vaccination shots in February ranging between 300,000 and 900,000 per day is still short of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's goal of 1 million set earlier this month.The percentage of the population having received the booster shot has increased from 4.5 percent at the end of January. In February, the daily number o…READ FULL ARTICLE