Regarding the new coronavirus vaccine, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced on the 28th that everyone who received two doses would be subject to the third dose.
On the other hand, there is no vaccine approved for use in the third inoculation in Japan, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will adjust the Pfizer vaccine for which approval has been submitted in the direction of deciding whether or not to approve it on the 10th of next month. I am.
On the 28th, a subcommittee of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare agreed on a policy of targeting all people who received the second dose of the new coronavirus vaccine for the third dose.
In response to this, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has indicated that it will give the third inoculation to people who are about eight months or more after the second inoculation, and will hold another subcommittee next month to formally decide the policy.
On the other hand, there is no vaccine approved for use in the third vaccination in Japan, and according to the people concerned, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced on the 10th of next month an expert group on the Pfizer vaccine for which approval was applied last month. It means that we have started to make adjustments in the direction of opening and deciding whether or not to approve.
If the approval is approved by the subcommittee, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will formally approve it within a few days, and then in December, the medical staff will start the third vaccination in sequence.
Regarding the third vaccination, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare basically uses the same vaccine as up to the second vaccination, and if there is an application for approval of the Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines, it will be promptly examined.