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Vaccines against the new coronavirus will be for all citizens until the first part of next year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday at a press convention in which he presented a series of policies and revisions that together are a replacement in the country’s big picture. strategy to eliminate the pandemic.
“Our fight with this invisible enemy began in January,” Abe said. “We have learned a lot over the more than six months, how to protect the most vulnerable, and how to balance public fitness and economic recovery, which the country will have to do. use to move forward.
The reserve budget for the additional budget at the time of the country in fiscal 2020 will be used to purchase vaccines, which Abe says will prioritize the elderly, frontline physical care providers and those with pre-existing conditions.
The government will provide money to vaccine brands and suppliers if fitness disorders lead to legal action.
After the Announcement on Friday of Abe’s goal of resigning, observers are involved in the implications of a primary replacement in leadership and an ongoing fitness crisis.
At an assembly of the organization that manages the central government coronavirus the previous Friday, the first in more than a month, Abe and other senior officials discussed a number of notable topics, adding the upcoming flu season.
Abe said he wants to strengthen the control capacity to prepare hospitals, control centers, and other medical services for a imaginable situation in which patients outpersed hospital beds or Americans want to be controlled by influenza virus and COVID-19.
To address this scenario or completely, the government aims to supply undeniable antigen test kits in a volume that would allow an average of 200,000 tests each day.
The implementation of normal tests in medical services and nursing homes in the most affected areas of the country was included in the national strategy announced on Friday.
As of Friday morning, Japan had reported 64,700 infections and 1,200 deaths.
The Ministry of Health is reviewing its COVID-19 classification under the country’s Infectious Diseases Act, which has recently been classified as a Category II infectious disease, the largest at the moment on a five-tier scale.
The authorities say that converting COVID-19 to a lower range can facilitate the country’s hospital admission procedure and care will decrease patient flow, ease the burden on health professionals, and allow them to prioritize the remedy of those who want it most.
Yasutoshi Nishimura, the country’s reaction minister at COVID-19, said a resolution would be taken next month on whether to upload Tokyo to the Go To Travel campaign, which began on July 22. The reaction was stoked through complaints that selling domestic tourism was reckless. However, Tokyo’s exclusion from the program has led many others to question its economic impact.
The inclusion of nearly 14 million inhabitants of the capital in the program may justify its maximum budget, but the movement of tourists from an urban center to rural areas of the country is causing public concern.
Until a resolution is made, it turns out that the crusade will remain suspended in limbo.
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