Regarding the new coronavirus vaccine, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided that the "underlying diseases" targeted for priority vaccination are cancer and chronic heart disease.
The vaccine of the new coronavirus, health care workers to the prospect of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in late February next year, the prospect of the end of March to ensure a system to begin the vaccination of the elderly, then priority, such as in people with underlying disease It is a policy to inoculate.
Under these circumstances, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare presented a proposal for "underlying diseases" to be prioritized at an expert meeting held on the 25th.
In addition to cancer, chronic heart disease, respiratory disease, kidney disease, diabetes being treated with insulin, neurological and neuromuscular diseases associated with immune disorders, chromosomal abnormalities, severe psychosomatic disorders, and sleep apnea It is a condition that you are out of the hospital or hospitalized due to a syndrome.
It also targets people with a "BMI" of 30 or higher, which indicates the degree of obesity.
On the other hand, pregnant women are not covered at this time due to lack of clear data on safety and efficacy, which was officially approved at the meeting on the 25th.
The number of people targeted is expected to reach about 8.2 million, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will soon notify the local government and prepare for the start of vaccination.
The "underlying diseases" that are subject to priority vaccination
The "underlying diseases" subject to priority inoculation are
▽ chronic respiratory diseases,
▽ chronic heart diseases (including high blood pressure),
▽ chronic kidney diseases,
▽ chronic liver diseases (excluding fatty liver and chronic hepatitis). ),
▽ Diabetes being treated with insulin or oral medicine, or diabetes with other illnesses,
▽ Blood illnesses (excluding iron deficiency anemia),
▽ Illnesses with reduced immune function (during treatment
)
including you),
▽ steroids, etc. are receiving treatment to reduce the function of the immune,
▽ immunity of abnormally associated with neurological disorders or neuromuscular disease,
state ▽ that the body of the function is a nerve disease and neuromuscular disease due waned (Respiratory disorders, etc.)
▽ Chromosome abnormalities,
▽ Severe mental and physical disorders (a state in which severe physical disabilities and severe intellectual disorders overlap),
▽ Sleep apnea syndrome,
all of which are outpatients or hospitalized It becomes a target.
In addition,
people with a "BMI" of 30 or more, which indicates the degree of obesity, are also eligible for priority vaccination.