Japan’s Pfizer vaccination ahead of his visit to the US… “I wasn’t sick”

Input 2021.03.16 14:20

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was vaccinated against the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) ahead of his visit to the United States next month.

According to Kyodo News Agency on the 16th, Prime Minister Suga visited a medical institution located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and received the first vaccination with the US Pfizer’s Corona 19 vaccine on the morning of that day while reporters watched it.

Prime Minister Suga said, “I felt sick, but it didn’t hurt that much,” after the Corona 19 vaccination, and said, “I was able to finish it smoothly.”

He said, “I felt that I had to make sure that all the people had to be vaccinated as soon as possible,” he said, and that he would create a proper environment for inoculation.

Prime Minister Suga’s COVID-19 vaccination came ahead of his first face-to-face talks with US President Joe Biden, scheduled for next month.

According to local media, Prime Minister Suga leaves the country on the 8th of next month, talks with President Biden at the White House on the 9th, and is coordinating the schedule of returning home on the 10th. Earlier, the governments of both the United States and Japan decided to minimize the number of Japanese visitors to 80-90 to prevent Corona 19, and Prime Minister Suga and all attendants would vaccinate Pfizer vaccine.

Pfizer’s Corona 19 vaccine is scheduled to be administered once more every three weeks, so Prime Minister Suga is expected to receive a second dose just before going to the United States.

Meanwhile, President Biden was vaccinated against Pfizer while being broadcast on TV in the United States in December of last year, before taking office.