In order to accelerate vaccination of the elderly, Kobe City has announced a new plan to set up a large-scale vaccination site in an empty tenant of the building and proceed with vaccination with the support of dentists.
The government is calling on local governments nationwide to complete vaccination of the elderly with the new coronavirus by the end of July.
Under these circumstances, Kobe City, which has about 430,000 elderly people aged 65 and over, has announced a new plan to accelerate the pace, saying that the inoculation will not end as it is.
Among them, a large-scale venue of about 3000 square meters will be set up in a vacant tenant of the "Kobe Harborland Center Building" in Chuo Ward, and operation will start from the end of May.
At a normal venue, the limit is about 200 people a day, but at a large venue, it is possible to inoculate several times as many people.
In addition, with a shortage of doctors, about 10 dentists a day will support and take charge of inoculation.
At the venue, doctors are studying ways to inoculate elderly people who have completed interviews while sitting with their shoulders out, and the inoculation time has been reduced from an average of about 3 minutes per person to about 1 minute. It is said that it can be done.
At a press conference, Mayor Hisamoto of Kobe City said, "The government will set up a large-scale vaccination site in Osaka, but Kobe City cannot be late. We need to accelerate our pace and work with a sense of speed. "