A freezer that can store vaccines at ultra-low temperatures arrived at a hospital in Otake City, Hiroshima Prefecture on the 7th for vaccination with the new coronavirus.

On the afternoon of the 7th, a freezer that stores more than 20,000 vaccines at around minus 75 degrees Celsius arrived at the Hiroshima West Medical Center in Otake City.



The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to pre-vaccine about 10,000 medical professionals such as 100 national and public hospitals nationwide, and the Hiroshima West Medical Center is also the target.



As soon as the freezer was installed in the room where the medicine was dispensed, the staff were checking to see if it worked properly.



The hospital plans to start vaccinations for about 500 employees who want to get vaccinated as soon as the vaccine is approved by the government, as early as the middle of this month.



Takuya Okutani, director of the Hiroshima West Medical Center, said, "Today is the first step toward vaccination. Until now, the new corona had only" protection "such as cluster countermeasures, but from now on, it will be a positive infection countermeasure. Vaccination I want to put in place a system. "