For vaccination of the new coronavirus, the government is urgently preparing to secure doctors and nurses who will be responsible for vaccination, select the implementation site, and build a transportation system in cooperation with each local government. ..
The government has positioned the new coronavirus vaccine as a decisive factor in controlling infections, and is preparing to start vaccination by the end of next month. Prime Minister Suga said at the plenary session of the House of Representatives on the 20th, "Earlier as soon as possible. We are doing everything we can to get you started. "
In addition, on the 20th, the government officially signed a contract to receive vaccines for 72 million people by the end of the year from Pfizer, a major American pharmaceutical company, but the previous basic agreement was "supply for 60 million people by the end of June". Therefore, we will work to supply a sufficient amount based on the basic agreement so that many people can be vaccinated in the first half of this year.
Vaccination is a large-scale and complicated response that spans the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, centering on the Cabinet Secretariat. We will formulate a detailed plan based on this.
Then, in cooperation with each local government, we are urgently preparing to secure doctors and nurses who will be responsible for vaccination, select the place of implementation, and build a transportation system.
On the other hand, two weeks have passed since the state of emergency was declared for one metropolitan area and three prefectures, so next week, the government will ask experts to analyze the effects of the measures taken under the declaration. , I will consider future measures.