★ Vaccination against the new coronavirus has already started in 40 countries around the world, including developed and medium-sized countries. Pfizer’s vaccine was said to be confirmed to be 95% effective in mid-November 2008, but it is rare for a vaccine to be this effective. Western countries have started early approval and vaccination as the benefits outweigh the risks. However, this is not the case in Japan. In the upper house plenary session on the 21st, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said, “We are expected to be able to secure 310 million times in total,” but the government signed a contract with Pfizer in July last year to acquire it. by June. The schedule was delayed and, by the end of the year, only 144 million bottles had been purchased for 72 million people. However, these are just acquisition stories. The prospect of specific vaccination plans is not in place, but only priority vaccination for health workers has been decided.

★ The government plans to receive supplies from Great Britain and the United States three companies, but of which the British Astra Zeneca and the American Moderna vaccine have no supply prospects due to the delay in the trial. For the moment, vaccination for those over 16 is also an excuse for bitterness. However, at the end of last year, 20 million people in the United States were scheduled to be vaccinated, which was confused by the crown accident, but in reality, only about 3 million people were vaccinated. Even in the United States, which is ahead, it is. The government is not only looking at the situation in each country and the safety of vaccines, but is also adopting a sensible response to incorporate vaccination into the Japanese bureaucratic system. Therefore, the prime minister appointed Taro Kono, the minister of administrative reform to break the vertical divide, as responsible for vaccines. Regardless of whether he was qualified or not, he immediately started to rampage. On the 20th, the general public will start vaccination around May, saying, “Don’t make a vaccination schedule on your own. It’s a disaster.” However, this is based on the process chart issued by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. If Manabu Sakai, undersecretary of the Cabinet Secretariat, said on the 22nd that “we hope to secure the necessary amount for all people to be vaccinated in June,” Sakai said, “we will correct it.” I will not do it. that. “Nothing is born from the play on words in the cabinet. Fate is reflective. (K) * Honorary title omitted