From the 17th, vaccination of the new coronavirus vaccine for medical professionals began at medical institutions nationwide.
Pfizer, the first American pharmaceutical company to be approved in Japan, will be vaccinated in advance at 100 hospitals nationwide, targeting approximately 40,000 healthcare professionals.
Of these, at the National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center in Meguro-ku, Tokyo, vaccination of staff began on the 17th.
The second vaccination will take place three weeks later, and a total of about 800 staff will be vaccinated at the hospital.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has investigated whether 20,000 out of 40,000 people who receive prior vaccinations nationwide will have side reactions such as fever for 4 weeks after the second vaccination, and regularly report the results. I will announce it.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare ▽ next month (March) in mid to ensure a system that can be inoculated to about 3.7 million people of health care workers remain in the prospect of, ▽ vaccination to target the approximately 36 million people over the age of 65 elderly from April It is a policy to start.