Broadcasters led with reports on Prime Minister Suga’s apology at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting this morning for the increase in the number of people who died of COVID-19 before being hospitalized (NHK, NTV, TV Asahi), opposition parties grilling Suga over whether he intends to host the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics as planned amid the pandemic (TBS), and the GOJ’s plan to administer COVID-19 vaccines to the elderly by sending out vaccination tickets around mid-March and providing two doses of the vaccine within three months (Fuji TV).