Japan's COVID-19 vaccination drive entered full swing Thursday, with locations for inoculations expanding beyond the Tokyo metropolitan area and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga inspecting a vaccination program at the Tokyo hospital that launched the drive the previous day.
Suga observed the vaccination process in action at the state-run Tokyo Medical Center, one of the eight hospitals in the capital and its vicinity across which a total of 125 staff members were inoculated Wednesday.
"I felt medical workers' (high) expectations for the vaccines," Suga told reporters after visiting the hospital. “We hope to deliver vaccines for all the people in Japan as soon as we can.”