Kitayama Village, Wakayama Prefecture, with a population of about 430, has taken measures such as inoculating the target people of neighboring local governments because the surplus amount was delivered even if the new coronavirus vaccine was inoculated twice to all applicants in the village. I decided to take it.
In Kitayama Village, Wakayama Prefecture, the only outlying village in Japan surrounded by Nara and Mie prefectures, a box of new coronavirus vaccine arrived on the 2nd of this month for priority inoculation of the elderly.
One box is the smallest amount distributed to each municipality at a time, but it contains enough vaccine for 975 people to inoculate once, and in this village with a population of about 430, about 320 people aged 16 and over want to be vaccinated. Even if a person is vaccinated twice, there is still more than 300 people can be vaccinated once.
For this reason, from next week, the village will proceed with inoculation twice for all applicants for the village, and will have firefighters who are eligible for priority inoculation from neighboring Shingu City, Wakayama Prefecture, come and inoculate at the village clinic. I decided.
In addition, if we can secure a means of freezing and transporting by proceeding with discussions with prefectures, we will provide surplus vaccines to neighboring local governments.
Miwa Kawabe, chief of the Kitayana Village Hall Residents Welfare Division, said, "It is difficult to decide how to utilize the surplus vaccine, but I do not want to waste it, so I would like to make effective use of it while consulting with related organizations." I did.