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【Youth Daily】 The government has signed a vaccine contract with AstraZeneca, a developer of vaccines for infection by the new coronavirus (Corona 19).
A health official said on day 3: “We recently signed a vaccine supply contract with AstraZeneca.”
The AstraZeneca vaccine requires two doses and, as a result of the initial data analysis of the phase 3 clinical trial, the prophylactic effect of the vaccine was 70-90%, depending on the method of administration. The company previously promised a supply price of $ 3 to $ 5 (about 3,000 to 5,500 won) per dose (one dose).
The government has been negotiating purchase contracts for five of the corona vaccines19 that have entered phase 3 clinical trials. AstraZeneca, known to have signed a contract for the first time, is reported to have been negotiating with Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Modena and NovaVax, who approved emergency use in the UK on Day 2.
Pfizer and Moderna have stated that the vaccines they are developing have preventive effects of 95% and 94.1%, respectively. The price is $ 19.5 (about 21,500 won) for Pfizer per dose and $ 15-25 (between 16,500 and 27,500 won) for Moderna. Two doses of the Pfizer and Modena vaccine are also required.
AstraZeneca vaccine is somewhat inferior in its preventive effect, but has the advantage that it can be delivered at 2-8 degrees compared to Pfizer, which must be delivered through a ‘cold chain’ at a cryogenic temperature below -70 ℃. There is also the advantage that domestic manufacturing is possible by signing a vaccine shipment production contract with SK Bioscience in July.
Initially, the government planned to insure 10 million people through the ‘COVAX facility’, an international project for the joint purchase and distribution of vaccines, and to purchase an additional 20 million people through individual negotiations with global pharmaceutical companies. The final amount to be insured is expected to be more than 30 million people.
Health and Welfare Minister Park Neung-hoo recently said: “We are looking for considerably more contracts than 30 million people, which is 60% of the total population.” In next year’s budget, 900 billion won has been allocated to purchase vaccines to increase the number of vaccination targets to 44 million.
【Youth Diary = Reporter Ahn Sang-jun】
