COVID-19: Japanese town’s vaccination strategy to benefit Taiwan seniors from todayStaff writer, with CNATaichung, Kaohsiung and Chiayi County are to adopt a COVID-19 vaccine administration method invented in a town in Japan to make the inoculation process easier for elderly people, the local governments said. Medical workers in Taichung yesterday practice using the “Umi-machi style” COVID-19 vaccine administration method, developed in Umi, a town in Japan’s Fukuoka Prefecture. Volunteers in Chiayi County yesterday hold signs promoting a service to transport elderly people to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Photo courtesy of the Chiayi County Government via CNAKaohsiung plans to administer the shots to its 31,000 residents aged 87 and older, also over a three-day period from today. Vaccination sites would be set up at elementary and secondary schools across the county, it said.

Source: Taipei Times June 14, 2021 15:56 UTC