Municipal vaccine allocation “If in stock, reduce by 10% until the latter half of August” National policy

Regarding the vaccine for the new coronavirus, the government plans to reduce the allocation according to the population by 10% until the latter half of next month to the local governments that consider that a certain amount of stock is in stock, and will show the allocation at the beginning of the week.

On the other hand, local governments in Tokyo are calling for not reducing the amount of vaccines that have not been surplus even after conducting an independent survey.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will supply a certain amount of Pfizer vaccines nationwide in the first half of next month based on the data of "VRS" = vaccination recording system for the "basic plan frame" to be allocated according to the population. We have reduced the allocation to cities, wards, towns and villages that we consider to be present by 10%.

A total of 46 cities and wards were targeted for reduction, of which Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, independently investigated how much inventory it had.

According to this, as of the 8th of this month, about 560,000 vaccines were delivered, and the national allocation policy considers about 340,000 vaccines in stock, excluding the vaccination records entered in the VRS. Of these, about 301,000 doses were reserved for group vaccinations and individual vaccinations.

In addition, the remaining 39,000 doses had not caught up with the input to the VRS, which means that they had already been used for inoculation.

Setagaya Ward said, "We have to secure the vaccine for the reservation, and there is no surplus vaccine. If the allocation decreases, we will not be able to accept new vaccination reservations." I'm looking for it.

In addition, as a result of an independent survey in Adachi Ward, most of the vaccines in stock were already reserved, and there were almost no surplus vaccines.

Municipalities are moving to suspend new vaccination reservations because the desired amount of vaccine has not arrived, but the national government accounts for about 40% of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines delivered nationwide, according to VRS records. It is said that more than 43.48 million doses have not been used for inoculation as of the 18th of this month.

For this reason, the policy is to reduce the allocation to municipalities that are considered to have a certain amount of inventory in the latter half of next month by 10%, and the allocation will be shown on the 26th of this month.

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, "There are voices from other local governments that there are only a limited number of surplus vaccines. From the end of next month, all vaccines will be delivered to prefectures and then distributed to municipalities. I would like you to make adjustments based on the inoculation situation, etc.