The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare includes staff in vaccination site to vaccine priority group, due to high contact with visitors

    The Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare have announced that they will be including the personnel working at the vaccination site in the vaccine priority group. They will be inoculated at the same time as the elderly, and this guideline was incorporated into medical institutions late last month.

　The staff come into contact with a large number of visitors so there is a higher risk for them to get infected. Therefore, they should be included in the priority group. From the staff on the front desk to medical pre-examination, including the guides within the site are included in the vaccine priority group. Employees of contractors from privately-run vaccination sites will also be covered. However, staff who are in charge of preparing and setting up the site and those who have very limited contact with visitors are not included in the priority group.

　Vaccines for the medical staff have been distributed and have begun to be administered. The vaccine has been distributed to the municipalities at the same time as the start of the inoculation of the elderly, so the staff will also be vaccinated concurrently.

Source: https://yomidr.yomiuri.co.jp/article/20210301-OYT1T50083/?catname=news-kaisetsu_news