Osaka City has begun shipping vaccination tickets for the new coronavirus vaccination for the elderly living at home, which is scheduled to start from the end of next month.
In addition, Kobe City has begun shipping vaccination tickets for the vaccination for the elderly, which is scheduled to start on the 10th of next month.
In Osaka
Following the vaccination of elderly people entering the facility that started last week, Osaka City plans to start vaccination of elderly people living at home from the end of next month, and will ship vaccination tickets from 19th. started.
In addition to the vaccination ticket, the envelope that will be shipped contains a vaccination manual and a pre-examination slip that describes the presence or absence of underlying illness.
The city will first ship vaccination tickets to approximately 170,000 elderly people aged 82 and over, and then to those under the age of 82 in sequence, and by mid-next month all vaccination tickets aged 64 and over. I want to finish the distribution to the elderly.
In addition, in order to reliably respond to inquiries from citizens, we are planning to strengthen the call center system at the counter from the current 50 to 300 from the 21st.
In Kobe
Regarding vaccinations for the elderly, Kobe City will start group vaccinations at 13 venues from 10th next month and individual vaccinations at 734 clinics and hospitals from 17th next month.
In order to avoid a concentration of vaccination reservations, vaccination tickets will be shipped by age.
On the 19th, envelopes containing vaccination tickets arrived at the Kobe Central Post Office for about 240,000 people aged 75 and over.
According to the post office, the envelopes will be delivered to 13 post offices that are in charge of delivery on the 19th, and will be delivered to the homes of the elderly in sequence from the 20th.
Kobe City will start accepting vaccination reservations from 8:30 am on the 20th on its dedicated website and call center.
In addition, we will start shipping vaccination tickets for about 190,000 people aged 65 to under 75 from the 17th of next month.
Shinsuke Happiness, chief of the Kobe City Vaccine Countermeasures Office, said, "We have secured the amount of vaccine, so please do not panic and make a reservation."