(ANSA) - TOKYO, June 13 - The airline All NipponAirways (Ana) will begin vaccinating its employees against Covid starting Sunday, one day earlier than original plans. The public channel Nhk anticipates this, indicating that the first Japanese airline together with the competitor Japan Airways both plan to inoculate their employees as early as next week.
The places for mass immunization will be the center of the city airport of Haneda, in Tokyo, and the first on the list will be the pilots together with the flight attendants engaged in long-haul flights, out of a total of 48 thousand employees for the whole group.
The same goes for Japan Airlines, which will proceed with its 36,000 employees from Monday. To accelerate the coronavirus vaccination campaign at the national level, the Tokyo government has reached an agreement with about 400 companies and universities in the country, favoring the inoculation of employees, students and school staff from 21 June. According to the proposal, various entities undertake to coordinate logistics with the final definition of the site and the selection of medical personnel, while the public authorities will be responsible for providing vaccinations together with the coverage of costs.
To take advantage of the assistance, the selected companies will have to administer two doses of the serum to at least 1,000 individuals in the same place, giving priority to those over 65 and to people with serious medical conditions.
According to the latest findings, to date just over 30% of the elderly in Japan have received the first dose of the vaccine, a population group equivalent to 11 million people. (HANDLE).