In Niyodogawa Town, located in the mountains of Kochi Prefecture, we started an initiative on the 23rd to transfer elderly people who receive a mass inoculation of the new coronavirus vaccine to the venue by bus or taxi.
In Niyodogawa Town, Kochi Prefecture, mass inoculation of the new coronavirus vaccine is carried out for the elderly, but some elderly people find it difficult to visit the inoculation site on their own due to the scattered villages in the mountains. I will.
Therefore, the town started an initiative on the 23rd to arrange buses and taxis to transfer elderly people to the inoculation site.
On the 23rd, a group inoculation was carried out for about 470 people at the gymnasium of the former Agawa Junior High School, and elderly people arrived at the venue one after another by bus or taxi and were inoculated.
According to Niyodogawa Town, more than 80% of the approximately 2,800 elderly people in the town want to be vaccinated, and by proceeding with mass vaccination, vaccination will be completed on the 27th of next month. That is.
A 99-year-old woman who finished the first vaccination said, "I am a little relieved that I was able to get the vaccination. I will not drive a car at the age of 100 soon, so I am grateful for the transfer."
Nobuhiro Kataoka, Deputy Chief of the Niyodogawa Town Health and Welfare Division, said, "We decided to pick up and drop off as many people as possible. I want to go. "