{"id":32243,"date":"2021-05-19T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/19\/flaw-in-japan-covid-vaccine-booking-system-causes-chaos"},"modified":"2021-05-19T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T05:00:26","slug":"flaw-in-japan-covid-vaccine-booking-system-causes-disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32243","title":{"rendered":"Flaw in Japan Covid vaccine booking system causes disarray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News that online system is open to abuse overshadows efforts by Tokyo to speed up slow rollout<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A flaw in Japan\u2019s coronavirus inoculation programme has been exposed barely a day after the government opened a facility in Tokyo designed to speed up the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/28\/japan-faces-olympian-task-slow-start-covid-vaccinations\">slow vaccine rollout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The glitch \u2013 which allows people to make jab reservations using false information \u2013 has proved an embarrassment for the government, which is facing renewed criticism for its handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/19\/flaw-in-japan-covid-vaccine-booking-system-causes-chaos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News that online system is open to abuse overshadows efforts by Tokyo to speed up slow rolloutSee all our coronavirus coverageA flaw in Japan\u2019s coronavirus inoculation programme has been exposed barely a day after the government opened a facility in To&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32243","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=32243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32244,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32243\/revisions\/32244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}