Emergency medical service staff members are seen injecting mock vaccines into duck meat in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 29, 2021. (Mainichi/Naoaki Hasegawa)

       EBINA, Kanagawa -- Following the Japanese government's move to allow emergency response personnel and clinical laboratory technicians to carry out coronavirus vaccine injections, a practical training session for paramedics and other health care professionals was held in this east Japan city on June 29 to learn the procedures and points that require attention.

       Twenty-nine people who had earlier finished a classroom lecture participated in the training session, and they practiced giving mock vaccines into duck meat using training kits for intramuscular injections under the instruction of a local doctors' association.

       The Ebina Municipal Government intends to have emergency medical service staff who have completed the training course join mass inoculations to administer injections from July 1.

       Yasuhiro Shimizu, 46, who belongs to the city's fire department and participated in the training session, commented, "While it will be different from a rescue scene, I would like to be helpful to residents."

       (Japanese original by Naoaki Hasegawa, Photo Group)

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