Photo/Illutration The Hiroshima city government building (Tabito Fukutomi)

HIROSHIMA--A city government employee here was so terrified of becoming infected with COVID-19 that he received four vaccinations, two more than necessary.

City officials explained Nov. 5 that the male employee in his 50s had a pre-existing health condition.

“I was afraid of infection,” he told city officials. “I heard that booster shots were spreading overseas, so I felt it would be more difficult to become infected if I got more shots.”

The man was scheduled to work as a driver to transport COVID-19 patients to hospitals for treatment and hotels for rest and recuperation.

He first received two jabs in June after he was given a priority document from the city government handed out to medical care professionals.

He then used the vaccination document distributed to all residents to receive his third and fourth jabs in July and August.

He has not experienced any ill effects.

According to city government officials, the initial priority documents distributed to medical care professionals did not have the bar code to record a vaccination into the central government’s data base.

But when the first two jabs were finally inputted into the computer system in October, city officials realized the man had received double the suggested amount of vaccines.

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