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Influenza Preventive Inoculation for Elderly People

Update : 2022-9-20

Soka City will be sent the notices to the subjected people in the end of September.

Seasonal Influenza Prevention Injection will start for the people over 65 years old.
We recommend getting an injection before Influenza is being spread.
Also please keep hand washing, gargling, taking nutoritious foods and getting enough rest and sleep to prevent influenza.
Please contact with a designated medical institution in advance and check the time.

Eligible people

(1) People of 65 and above on the day of inoculation. (Persons who becomes 65 years old until the end of January, 2023 can take inoculation from the previous day of his/her 65th birthday at free of charge)
Please be inoculated at a designated medical institution with a medical examination notice and a health insurance certificate card.

(2) 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)
* Soka City will send a medical examination notice to the people who were inoculated last year in late of September.

If (2) people didn't receive a notice letter, apply to the Hoken Center (Public Health Center)
with a disable handbook.

Inoculation Period

October 1 (Sat.) to January 31 (Tue.), 2023

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.

Fee

1,000 yen or Free

 Free

  • People over 70 years old (person who was born on April 1 and before),
  • Person who receive welfare benfits (Seiktsu-hogo)
  • Person who receive the subsidy of Japanese War Orphans from China

In case a person who wants to be inoculated outside Soka city and Yashio City but in Saitama prefecture

Satarts from October 20 (Thur.) Need to apply at the Hoken Center (Public Health Center) in advance from October; we will send a questionnarire in exchange for a notice.

* If people take an inoculation outside Saitama prefecture they have to pay personally.

Inquiry

Hoken Center (Public Health Center)
Tel.(048)-922-0200
FAX(048)-922-1516