The number of people who received the third dose of the new coronavirus vaccine is more than 25 million, which is 20% of the total population, and the number of doses per day was the highest at 950,000 on the 18th of last month.
Regarding the third vaccination, the government will gradually reduce the interval from the second vaccination, which was initially 8 months, to 6 months, and will achieve 1 million vaccinations per day as early as February. I was aiming for it.
By the 28th, the highest number of vaccinations per day in the VRS = Vaccination Recording System data was 950,546 on the 18th of last month.
Looking at the weekdays last week, it has changed from 700,000 times to 800,000 times.
Data may be entered late, so the number of vaccinations per day may increase at a later date.
The number of people who received the third vaccination was 25,798,092, which is 68.8% of the number of people who were vaccinated by the 28th, and the vaccination rate in the total population is 20.4%.
The highest inoculation rate by prefecture was Gifu prefecture at 26.9%, followed by Saga prefecture at 26.8% and Yamaguchi prefecture at 26.6%.
The lowest was Akita prefecture at 14.8%, followed by Niigata prefecture at 17% and Kanagawa prefecture at 17.1%.
In addition, the number of elderly people aged 65 and over who received the third vaccination was 18,475,931, and the vaccination rate was 51.7%.