The National Governors' Association has compiled a list of advanced measures related to vaccinations against the coronavirus that have been adopted by local governments across the country.
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Japan s local gov ts striving to minimize waste of COVID-19 vaccines
June 5, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
This photo taken on May 27, 2021 shows a local official reaching into a box used in a lottery to choose people who will be administered extra doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in Sugito, Saitama Prefecture. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) With the COVID-19 vaccination rollout just starting to gather steam in Japan, local governments have been figuring out how best to use surplus doses resulting from sudden appointment cancelations or no-shows and coming up with a variety of schemes. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has requested in writing that each local government study and adopt flexible measures to address the question of whom should be administered leftover doses of vaccine that would otherwise be discarded.
With the vaccination rollout gathering steam, local governments have come up with a variety of ways to use surplus doses resulting from appointment cancellations.