{"id":27454,"date":"2021-01-28T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/28\/japan-faces-olympian-task-slow-start-covid-vaccinations"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T01:00:01","slug":"japan-faces-olympian-task-with-slow-start-to-covid-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27454","title":{"rendered":"Japan faces Olympian task with slow start to Covid vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a vaccine-hesitant public and jabs yet to begin, there are fears immunisations are off the pace<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> was among the first countries to report cases of Covid-19 after the world was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/31\/wuhan-covid-china-anniversary-who-coronavirus\">alerted to the virus<\/a> in December 2019. But just over a year later, it is the last major economy to deploy a vaccine \u2013 a measure widely acknowledged as the best hope for a return to something resembling normal life.<\/p>\n<p>The first round of jabs is not expected to begin in Japan until the end of February, months after the US and UK \u2013 which have recorded far higher death tolls and caseloads \u2013 began their vaccination programmes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/28\/japan-faces-olympian-task-slow-start-covid-vaccinations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a vaccine-hesitant public and jabs yet to begin, there are fears immunisations are off the paceCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan was among the first countries to report cases of Covid-19 after the world was alerted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,88,882,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27456,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454\/revisions\/27456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}