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Japan’s response to the pandemic is seen around the world as the Tokyo Olympics draw near – POOL / AFP
THE Japan began this Wednesday (17) the vaccination of 40 thousand health professionals against COVID-19, five months before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, which were postponed for a year.
The first doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, authorized last Sunday by the government, were administered in a hospital in the Japanese capital.
The director of the medical center, Kazuhiro Araki, was the first to be vaccinated.
“The vaccine plays an important role against the coronavirus and, as director, I had to lead by example,” Araki told reporters.
Japan initially intends to vaccinate 40,000 volunteer healthcare professionals who are at the forefront of the fight against coronavirus.
According to the local press, half of those vaccinated will be invited to report any side effect or reaction to the immunizer, administered in two doses three weeks apart.
The government hopes to vaccinate all health professionals in the country, representing 3.7 million people, in a second phase in March.
Vaccination for people over 65 will begin in April, at the fastest forecast. The government has not yet released the calendar to the country’s other 126 million people.
“I want many people to get vaccinated as soon as we have an accurate understanding of the benefits and risks,” Taro Kono, the Japanese minister responsible for overseeing vaccination, said Tuesday.
The vaccine authorization process in Japan took longer than in Europe and the United States because the country requires additional clinical studies in its territory.
Last year, the Japanese government reserved enough doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech, AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines to administer to the entire population.
Closed to foreign visitors since last year, Japan has been relatively less affected by the pandemic than other regions of the world, with 418,000 cases and nearly 7,000 deaths in one year.
Although the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled to run from July 23 to August 8, focus on managing Japan’s health crisis, Kono said it “does not factor” the event into the country’s vaccination schedule.
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