Ebina City, Kanagawa Prefecture, where many foreigners live, has decided to use a mosque where many foreigners gather as a venue for mass inoculation in order to facilitate vaccination with the new corona virus.
According to Ebina City, there are about 2,700 foreigners living in the city, but the city only accepts vaccination reservations in Japanese, and it is difficult to make reservations due to language problems. There is also.
For this reason, Ebina City has decided to utilize the city's mosque, where many foreigners gather regularly, as a venue for mass vaccination in order to facilitate vaccination.
Since the city has discussed and agreed with the representative of the mosque, local doctors and paramedics are planning to inoculate every Saturday from 31st of this month.
It is said that there are about 1,200 people who use this mosque, including neighboring Ayase City and Zama City, but initially we started inoculation for people living in Ebina City, and if the prospect of vaccine supply is established, the surrounding area It means expanding the scope of inoculation to those who come from.
Vaccination at religious facilities where foreigners gather is rare in Japan, so in Ebina City, "By eliminating people who cannot be vaccinated due to language barriers, etc., and increasing the vaccination rate for the entire region. I want to help resolve the infection. "