{"id":10809,"date":"2021-01-20T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/article\/3118529\/coronavirus-japan-official-denies-pre-olympics-mass-jab-roll-out-schedule"},"modified":"2021-01-20T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T11:05:13","slug":"coronavirus-japan-official-denies-pre-olympics-mass-jab-roll-out-schedule-singapore-airlines-trials-pre-departure-testing-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/coronavirus-japan-official-denies-pre-olympics-mass-jab-roll-out-schedule-singapore-airlines-trials-pre-departure-testing-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Japan official denies pre-Olympics mass jab roll-out schedule; Singapore Airlines trials pre-departure testing service"},"content":{"rendered":"The chief of Japan\u2019s Covid-19 vaccination programme on Wednesday denied media reports that jabs for the general public may start in May, as the country battles a third wave that has brought record numbers of infections and serious cases.Domestic media, including public broadcaster NHK, had cited an anonymous source close to the government as saying vaccinations could reach the public as soon as May.\u201cOh no, NHK, please don\u2019t go around making vaccination roll-out schedules like that. It\u2019s bogus,\u201d\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/article\/3118529\/coronavirus-japan-official-denies-pre-olympics-mass-jab-roll-out-schedule\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief of Japan\u2019s Covid-19 vaccination programme on Wednesday denied media reports that jabs for the general public may start in May, as the country battles a third wave that has brought record numbers of infections and serious cases.Domestic media,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10810,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions\/10810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}