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Apr 26, 2021
In anticipation of a surge in demand in some municipalities for doctors and nurses eligible to administer COVID-19 vaccines, Japan will enlist the help of dentists for its nationwide inoculation program, which is currently progressing at a very slow pace.
After gaining approval from a panel of experts, the health ministry decided Friday to allow dentists who are deemed ineligible to give COVID-19 vaccines under the Medical Practitioners’ Law to administer the shots under some circumstances.
Japan rigidly controls who can administer coronavirus vaccines, contrasting sharply with countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, where an array of health care personnel besides doctors and nurses including dentists, pharmacists, medical students and emergency medical technicians have been deployed to help staff the inoculation program. In the U.K., even volunteers from all walks of life who have no medical qualifications have been trained to a
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Chances of infection at the dentist’s office
The Japan Dental Association says dental clinics have various preventive measures in place, so they recommend that people who do not have a fever, cough or other symptoms see dentists as usual.
People who have symptoms may be asked to refrain from being examined.
But the association says some cases may be urgent or even life threatening if left untreated, so people should first consult their dentists.
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