Regarding the new coronavirus vaccine, the framework in which the government contracts directly with manufacturers to secure vaccines and administer them free of charge ended last year, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has announced the inventory and disposal of the vaccines secured so far. Did.
Until last year, the government had contracted directly with vaccine manufacturers to secure new coronavirus vaccines and deliver them to local governments, etc., and continued to provide them free of charge on an exceptional basis.
However, as of last fiscal year, this framework ended, and from this fiscal year, medical institutions in each region will purchase vaccines on the market and offer ``voluntary vaccination'' to those who wish to receive the vaccine at their own expense, or some This is a ``regular vaccination'' that requires you to pay your own expenses.
In response to this, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced the inventory and disposal policy for the vaccines the country had secured up to last year.
According to the data, approximately
870,000 doses of the approximately 39 million doses purchased from Pfizer and approximately 6 million doses purchased from Moderna correspond to the Omicron strain "XBB"
strain used since September last year.
Of these, approximately 10,000 doses,
and approximately 740,000 of the approximately 1.4 million doses purchased from Daiichi Sankyo,
are scheduled to be disposed of once their expiration date has reached.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said, ``We have been working to ensure that everyone who wants to be vaccinated can be vaccinated, so although some were thrown away, we believe it was not wasted.''