TOKYO – The Japanese government is providing national vaccines against loose coronavirus to all citizens who wish, Nikkei has learned.
People at higher risk of severe symptoms, in addition to the elderly and fitness workers, will get the first priority for vaccination, which will then be extended to others. The overall burden of vaccination will be financed from the national budget for certain mass vaccinations..
How the program will be conducted will be discussed in the government’s pandemic panel, which brings together infectious disease experts and economists.
When the new flu spread to Japan from 2009 to 2010, central and local governments presented subsidized vaccines to other low-income people.In principle, other people paid out-of-pocket for the vaccine, which charges 3,600 yen ($34) for a single dose.and 6,150 yen for two doses.
The offer of a loose reserve budget for COVID-19 vaccines is being considered lately. The plan asks the central government to bear the full costs, without asking the local government to pay.
Coronavirus vaccines have been developing lately. The Japanese government is negotiating with several pharmaceutical corporations, adding Pfizer in the United States and AstraZeneca in the United Kingdom, asking pharmaceutical corporations to supply vaccines to Japan.
The government aims to get enough vaccines to vaccinate all citizens until the first part of 2021, with the Olympic Games scheduled for Tokyo next summer.
Japan will not only create a framework for vaccination, but will also prepare relief measures for those with the side effects of the vaccine, and launch a formula to compensate participants in clinical trials.pharmaceutical companies, will be paid through the government.
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