With the start of inoculation of the new coronavirus vaccine to the elderly approaching one week later, the vaccine will be delivered to prefectures from the 5th.
Vaccines developed by major American pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer have been inoculated to medical professionals since February, and will begin to be inoculated to approximately 36 million elderly people aged 65 and over from the 12th of this month.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has a policy of delivering vaccines to prefectures sequentially from this week, first supplying 3900 doses to Tokyo, Kanagawa and Osaka, and 1950 doses to other prefectures within this week.
Next week and next week, we will supply 19,500 doses to Tokyo, Kanagawa, and Osaka, respectively, and 9750 doses in addition.
In addition, we plan to deliver 975 batches to all municipalities in the week of the 26th of this month.
Due to the structure of the syringe prepared by the government at the beginning of inoculation, the amount of vaccine that can be collected from one container is expected to be 5 doses, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare wants to switch to a syringe that can collect 6 doses by the end of next month. I will.
By the end of June, it is expected that all the target elderly people will be able to receive the amount that can be inoculated twice.