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[사진출처 = 연합뉴스]As the number of confirmed corona19 cases in the United States skyrocketed, vaccination is accelerating.
On the 12th (local time), the Vaccination Advisory Committee (ACIP), an advisory body to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recommended the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
ACIP held a meeting that day and decided to recommend that Americans over the age of 16 inoculate the COVID-19 vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and Bioentech.
The ACIP vaccine recommendation is a procedure that must be followed in order for the newly developed vaccine to be vaccinated in real people.
If CDC Director Robert Redfield officially accepts and approves the recommendation, then the vaccine can be vaccinated. Already on the 14th, the hospital is expected to provide emergency vaccinations to employees.
That means that Corona 19’s situation has worsened. Corona 19 spread violently in the United States and the number of accumulated infections surpassed 16 million on the 12th (local time).
The US Johns Hopkins University counted the cumulative number of confirmed Corona 19 cases in the US on this day to 16.2 million, 646. The cumulative death toll was 2,975,753, approaching 300,000 .
One million people were added in just four days after surpassing 15 million on day 8. This is an increase of 1 million infected people in the shortest period.
In Korea, interest in vaccination is increasing as the number of new confirmed cases surpasses 1,000 for the first time in history.
The number of new confirmed corona 19 cases was 1030 at 0 o’clock on the 13th. It is the first time in nearly 328 days since January 20, when the first Corona 19 patient appeared in Korea in the amount of 1,000. new confirmed cases.
In addition, the number of tests on the weekend of the previous day decreased by about 14,000 compared to the day of the previous week, but the number of confirmed cases increased.
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 13th, the government decided to receive 34 million copies of the Corona 19 vaccine through individual negotiations with foreign pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Germany. , Bioentech, USA Modena, Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) and UK AstraZeneca. .
The 10 million COVID-19 vaccines that the World Health Organization (WHO) and international medical bodies decided to supply through the “ Cobox Facility ” created for the fair distribution of vaccines are Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sanofi in France and GSK (Glaxo). Smith Kline). This means that Korea has a vaccine for 44 million people.
President Moon Jae-in said at the emergency inspection meeting for the quarantine situation in the Corona metropolitan area 19 held on the 9th. “Please prepare your vaccination plan in advance so that you can do it.”
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