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Influenza Preventive Inoculation for Elderly People

Update : 2021-12-2

Free for All the Eligible People

It is reported on the September 5 issue of City Newspaper that Soka City expands the eligible people for free of charge and raise the subsidy fee and will send the notices to the subjected people in the end of September.

After that, Saitama Prefecture decided to cover the fee for the elderly people.
So eligible person can take an inoculation at free of charge.

The symptoms of influenza and COVD-19 strongly resemble.
If the elderly people will be infected the diseases will apt to advance in severity and sometimes will be life-threatening.

Eligible people and Fee

(1)People between the ages of 60 and 64 on the day of inoculation and have disable handbook with the first-class condition with regard to functions of heart, kidney, breathing organ or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
(2)People between 65 and 69

1,000 yen → Free

(3)People between 70 and 74
(4)People of age 75 and over

Free

* Soka City has sent postcards to the people above (1) and (2) to inform they don't need fee.

Inoculation Period

October 1 (Thur.) to January 31 (Sun.), 2021

At where Inoculation Place

At the designated medical institutions in Soka City
* A list of the designated medical institutions is enclosed in the notice letter.

Cautions

・If people above (1)to(4) take an inoculation outside Saitama prefecture they have to pay personally.

Inquiry

Kenko Dukuri-ka (Public Health Section)
Tel.(048) 922-0200
FAX(048) 922-1516