This picture shows the logo of Suntory Holdings at a vaccination venue to receive the Moderna coronavirus vaccine for Covid-19 in a Tokyo office on June 21, 2021. - AFP
TOKYO (Bloomberg): In a country where workplaces play an outsized role in people’s lives, Japan is betting that enlisting its largest corporations to roll out Covid-19 vaccines will add fuel to a much-scrutinized inoculation drive.
Still grappling with a rollout that’s deployed only enough doses to cover 11% of the population, the Japanese government is allowing its biggest corporate brand names and employers like Toyota Motor Corp., SoftBank Group Corp., and Nomura Holdings Inc. to administer shots to their own employees within office premises from Monday (June 21).
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