Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Influenza vaccine request for advance delivery October 5th 6:15
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However, there is a tendency that the number of influenza patients will increase earlier than usual, and there is a possibility that it will enter the epidemic period this month as early as 2 months. For this reason, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has sent a document requesting cooperation from manufacturers to advance the supply so that the supply of vaccines will not be delayed.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of influenza cases reported from about 5000 medical institutions nationwide in the week until 29th of last month was 4543, 0.92 per medical institution, and the outbreak has already begun in the past few weeks. It is around “1” which is a guideline for.
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases is likely to enter the epidemic period almost two months earlier than usual. , Issued a document calling for cooperation to advance the vaccine supply.
In the document, after considering that the vaccine is not biased to a specific region or medical institution, we want to make efforts to reduce the inventory as much as possible and deliver it to medical institutions as soon as possible.
Influenza vaccination has already begun, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has said, “I would like to seek cooperation so that vaccines do not run short even if the epidemic enters early.”