Japan's COVID-19 inoculation campaign is moving at a glacial pace, hampered by a lack of supply and a shortage of specialty syringes — issues that underscore the enormous challenge it faces in its mission to vaccinate every adult by the year's end.
Just under 46,500 doses had been administered to front-line medical workers as of Friday, three weeks since the campaign began.
By contrast, South Korea, which began its vaccinations a week later than Japan, had administered nearly seven times more shots as of Sunday.
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