Amid concerns about the spread of infection at school, Kiyose City, Tokyo, has advanced the schedule to advance the "summer vacation vaccination" so that desired children can be vaccinated with the new coronavirus vaccine before the start of the new semester, until the 25th. 30% finished the first inoculation.
Kiyose City, Tokyo, was planning to start making reservations for vaccination of children aged 12 to 18 from the end of this month. We have been inoculating since the end of last month.
According to Kiyose City, as a result, about 1400 people, or 30% of the 4800 people aged 12 to 18 years old, completed the first vaccination by the 25th.
Since some children could not be vaccinated during the summer vacation, they would not be treated as absent on the day of vaccination and on days when they are absent from school due to side reactions.
Motoharu Suzuki, Deputy Councilor of the Kiyose City Health Promotion Division, said that vaccination was voluntary. Since the reservation frame was filled up immediately, I feel that there was more need than I expected. I will continue to accept reservations after the second semester, so I would like to create a system that can inoculate all desired elementary, junior high and high school students. I was talking.
High school and junior high school parents who received the vaccination
At the medical institution, which is one of the vaccination venues in Kiyose City, Tokyo, junior and senior high school students and their guardians visited one after another on the 25th, the day before the start of the new semester, and 28 people aged 12 to 18 years old in the morning alone. Was inoculated.
A high school boy who was vaccinated said, "Because I go to school by train, I wanted to reduce the difficulty in case of infection."
The mother who accompanied her said, "I'm worried about resuming classes, but I felt sorry for the fact that the number of classes was reduced due to the state of emergency and I couldn't do club activities. I would be grateful if I could send it. "
In addition, a junior high school boy said, "I thought it would be better to take it to reduce the risk of infection when going out."
The mother of a junior high school boy said, "I am grateful for the opportunity to get vaccinated because it is difficult to make a reservation for the vaccine. My child said that he wanted to take it voluntarily, so I called him immediately after the reservation started. Some children under the age of 12 can't do it, so I'd like to reduce the risk by hitting it with the whole family. "
Kenji Otsuka, director of the Otsuka Otolaryngology Clinic, said, "Since the risk of infection increases when school starts, I think that vaccination during the summer vacation is a good initiative. rice field.