[사회]250,000 Pfizer vaccines arrive in Korea …

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250,000 people from the Corona 19 Pfizer vaccine entered the country today.

It is a vaccine for people over 75 years of age, and vaccination begins next month.

There is a reporter at the National Medical Center where the vaccine was delivered. Reporter Shin Joon-myeong!

Some of the Pfizer vaccines that came to Korea are stored at the National Medical Center, right?

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So is.

The Pfizer vaccine arrived at the National Medical Center here around noon, four and a half hours after arriving at Incheon International Airport today.

1,950 vials, that is, 11,700 times as little as 11,700 times, as much as 13,650 times.

Currently, there are 500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines in Korea.

The government hired Pfizer directly, and individual contracts could fit 250,000 people.

It was produced in Belgium and arrived at Incheon International Airport around 7:30 am today after passing through Cologne, Germany and Shenzhen, China via cargo plane.

After receiving quality checks prior to distribution at Incheon International Airport, they are loaded onto 15 delivery vehicles and delivered to 22 vaccination centers across the country and stored.

This amount will be used for vaccines for people over 75 years of age from the 1st of the following month.

Pfizer’s vaccination targets over 75 years total 3.64 million people, with 250,000 more due to arrive by the end of this month.

The government plans to bring in 3 million more for the second quarter.

The number of vaccines the government has insured to date is 79 million people.

Contracts for 10 million people through the COVAX Facility, an international vaccine supply organization, with the remainder contracted separately with pharmaceutical companies.

If we look at individual contracted vaccines by type, Pfizer vaccines for 13 million, AstraZeneca for 10 million, Janssen for 6 million and Modena and NovaVax for 20 million each.

On the 31st, a portion of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is the supply from the COVAX facility, is also scheduled to be delivered to Korea.

So far, YTN Shin Joon-myeong at the National Medical Center[[email protected]]is.

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