Japan has delivered its first Covid-19 vaccine dose even as a prefectural governor became the first senior politician to call for the cancellation of this summer’s Tokyo Olympics.
The first recipient of the vaccine in Japan — more than two months after inoculations began in the US and UK — was Kazuhiro Araki, head of the Tokyo Medical Center. He received the jab made by BioNTech and Pfizer on television along with a group of 12 doctors and nurses.
As the vaccination campaign began on Wednesday, Tatsuya Maruyama, the governor of Shimane prefecture, said he did not want to host the torch relay and called for the games to be scrapped.
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