Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga receives his first dose of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine at National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo Tuesday, March 16, 2021. - Kyodo News via AP
TOKYO, March 16 (Xinhua): Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday received the first dose of Pfizer vaccine at a hospital in Tokyo, in a bid to reassure about the safety of the jab against Covid-19.
Suga will head to the United States in April for a meeting with US President Joe Biden and in doing so making Suga the first foreign leader to meet Biden in person.
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