THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 13, 2021 at 13:56 JST
An elderly person receives a COVID-19 vaccine dose in Kyoto on May 12. (Makiko Komatsu)
Up to 1,490 municipalities, or 85.6 percent of Japan's total, said they “can” finish vaccinating all of their elderly residents against the novel coronavirus by the end of July, according to a government survey.
Among the 251 municipalities, or 14.4 percent, that said they “can’t” complete the inoculations by that time, 185 said they can finish the job “during August” while 66 said “in September or later.”
The names of the municipalities were not revealed in the survey results, which were released on May 12.
The government has set a goal of vaccinating all people 65 and older by the end of July.
According to the survey results, 20 municipalities in Tokyo and four in Osaka said they “can’t” vaccinate all elderly people by the end of July.
The 17 prefectures where all municipalities said they “can” do so are: Iwate; Niigata; Toyama; Ishikawa; Fukui; Gifu; Kyoto; Hyogo; Nara; Wakayama; Tottori; Shimane; Yamaguchi; Tokushima; Ehime; Nagasaki; and Oita.
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