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Seniors stand in line before they check in at the COVID-19 mass vaccination center in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward on May 24. (Naoko Kawamura)
A mass vaccination of the population is crucial for efforts to vanquish the COVID-19 pandemic and return life to normal.
It makes sense for the national government to roll out its own vaccination program to supplement those carried out by municipal administrations to expedite progress.
But the program could hamper, rather than help, local government attempts to inoculate the population if it increases the burden on health care workers and causes confusion.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration, which is leading a policy campaign to accelerate the pace of vaccinations, should operate the mass vaccination program carefully while closely monitoring the local government situations.
The state-run system for the mass-vaccination center in Tokyo was found to accept municipality code and vaccination ticket numbers that not issued by the respective authorities.
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