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Finally, vaccination with the new coronavirus has begun in the United Kingdom. However, one in four responded that they did not want to receive it and interest in vaccines was cold, especially among young people. What exactly is happening at the local level? Motomi Sakai, a journalist from the UK, explains.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
First approval of the vaccine to be supplied in Japan
The British government’s first approval agency, the “Medical and Pharmaceutical Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)”, approved the “BNT162b2” vaccine jointly developed by the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the German biopharmaceutical company BioNTech. .. It has ordered 40 million doses (for 20 million people) and plans to supply it in Japan in 2021.
Shortly after the arrival of the first 800,000 doses, on December 8 the British government began inoculation throughout the United Kingdom. Tens of thousands have been vaccinated in the first week alone. However, according to the national plan, instead of targeting “all vaccines”, the answer was “for the moment, the target is over 50 years old and less than 50 is completely blank.”
What is the current reaction of young people who have been excluded from the vaccination plan?
A serious situation where the death toll reaches 60,000
In the UK, from March to May, a virus brought in from abroad by nursing home staff spread the infection and many older people died. In many cases, the cause of death was coronavirus infection, but in some cases, corona disease resulted in insufficient treatment for other diseases.
The reason the British government was quick to approve the use of the vaccine is that it wants to stop the infection in these residences and minimize the occurrence of deaths and serious cases.
In the UK, the death toll from the new corona virus finally passed the 60,000 mark on December 4, and around 300 people continue to die each day.
Behind the fact that the UK has become the first to approve the use of vaccines, the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU), “Brexit”, is also closely related. Originally used in the UK, the drug is approved for use by the European Pharmaceutical Agency (EMA), one of the EU agencies.
However, the UK has already officially decided to leave the EU and the whole year has been spent in a transitional period. In late November, the British Ministry of Health issued a special rule so that the UK’s own agency, the Medical and Pharmaceutical Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), could approve the vaccine without waiting for the EMA’s decision.
Keep the cold at minus 70 degrees and connect the GPS
The first arrivals were brought to a total of 70 “vaccination centers”, including 50 medical institutions across the UK, including 50 in various parts of England, and the general public began vomiting on December 8.
Storage of “BNT162b2” requires an environment of minus 70 ° C (the allowed range is ± 10 ° C), and 975 vaccines are packed in a special cold storage box containing dry ice before shipment. This cold storage box is equipped with a GPS-equipped temperature sensor that constantly tracks not only the temperature but also the current location of the box, and is equipped with a mechanism to track even if it is lost or stolen.
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