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At the second pan-government integrated simulation training for AstraZeneca vaccine distribution held at the GTRIBNT distribution warehouse in Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do on 19, AstraZeneca’s vaccine transport vehicle from the SK Bioscience factory in Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do arrived at the storage location. [사진 출처 = 연합 뉴스]The government will begin vaccinating AstraZeneca Corona 19 for 28,9271 (93.6% agreement rate) out of a total of 308,930 hospitalized, residents and workers under 65, including hospitals and nursing facilities, starting at 9 am on the 26th .
In a briefing on the 22nd, the Central Defense Response Headquarters (Bang Daebon) said: “Nursing hospitals will start vaccination at 9 o’clock on the 26th, and therapists and treatment hospitals will start vaccination from from 27 “.
The vaccine is a product made by SK Bioscience, a manufacturer of national shipments. From 24 to 28, some 750,000 people (1.5 million times) will be sequentially supplied to the logistics center in Icheon, Gyeonggi province.
Starting on the 27th, Pfizer’s vaccine will be prioritized for 54,910 (94.6% consent rate) of all 58,029 medical staff treating COVID-19 patients. The government is planning to start vaccinating Pfizer’s vaccine for 58,500 people (117,000 doses), to be received through the ‘CoVax Facility’, an international project for the joint purchase and distribution of vaccines.
The Pfizer vaccine has been the subject of a special import from the Ministry of Food and Pharmaceutical Safety. Special importation is a system that allows medicines to be imported from abroad that do not have a national license to deal with the infectious disease pandemic.
“Vaccination will be carried out in the order of the central vaccination center, the regional and regional vaccination center and the self-inoculated medical institution,” said Eun-kyung Jung, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. and head of the central quarantine countermeasures. To ensure that Pfizer vaccination can be performed safely, the internal vaccination medical institution will participate in on-site training at the vaccination center. ”
The first vaccine will be administered from February to March and the second will be administered from April to May.
The government is promoting the introduction of vaccines for a total of 79 million people. This is equivalent to 152.4% of the total population of Korea (5182 million).
Specifically, △ AstraZeneca (for 10 million people) △ Jansen (for 6 million people), Modena (for 20 million people) △ Pfizer (for 13 million people) △ Novabacks (for 20 million people). In addition, the government plans to receive 10 million AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines through the international project ‘Covax Facility’, an international project for the joint purchase and distribution of vaccines.
The government re-emphasized its goal of achieving herd immunity by November. However, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), an economic analysis agency in the UK, predicted the completion time for vaccination in Korea in the middle of next year through the report ‘Corona 19 Vaccine: Expected Delay’. As for the period of group immunity, it is planned for the second half of next year.
In response, Commissioner Chung said: “We will have to analyze the content of the EIU’s estimate of the timing of the formation of group immunity based on this report and analyze the evidence-based data.” “I think it will be possible if we carefully manage the supply and demand for vaccines so that the vaccine can be delivered on a certain schedule.”
Donating blood is prohibited for one week after vaccination. Foreign cases are 7 days in the UK, one day in Germany and no restrictions in the US In a briefing the day before, Sohn Young-rae, head of the social strategy team at the Headquarters of Control of Accidents, he said: “Many countries apply the general standard rather than separately assessing the risk of donating blood due to vaccines.” Said .
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