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President Moon Jae-in visited the research facility of the Korea Pasteur Research Center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, on April 9, and heard explanations about experimentation and data acquisition from Kim Seung’s Level 3 Biosafety Laboratory -taek, head of the research team at the Korea Pasteur Research Institute. (Provided by Blue House) / News1On the 15th, President Moon Jae-in visited a national company that is developing a vaccine for the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) and requested that people do everything possible to return to their daily lives as soon as possible.
President Moon said: ‘Until the end! should! Under the motto “I will apply and succeed”, I visited SK Biosciences Research Center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, and held a meeting on site. This is the second on-site visit to the Corona 19 vaccine and treatment, following a visit to the Pasteur Institute in April.
This visit was designed to monitor the development of vaccines and treatments under government support, encourage researchers to participate in clinical trials, and listen to difficulties and suggestions from the field.
President Moon listened to the description of the COVID-19 vaccine and treatment development trend, and the vaccine development progress from SK Bioscience, and then toured the laboratory sequentially according to the development process. Applied for approval for a phase 1 clinical trial in Korea. In addition, it is promoting a plan to supply part of its domestic production to Korea by shipping vaccines from global vaccine companies such as AstraZeneca and NovaVax. SK Biosciences is also jointly developing a separate vaccine with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the US President Moon held an on-site meeting on the development of a vaccine and a treatment for Corona 19 after inspecting the process. Representatives from national Corona 19 vaccine / treatment development companies, field researchers, physicians, nurses, and vaccine and treatment-related experts involved in clinical research in the medical field participated.
The government was attended by the Minister of Health and Welfare, Park Neung-hoo, Lee Eui-kyung, head of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, and Kwon Jun-wook, head of the National Institute of Health. At the Blue House, science and technology advisor Park Soo-kyung attended.
President Moon emphasized the importance of the role of participants in developing vaccines and treatments to end Corona 19 and expressed his gratitude for the hard work. In addition, he requested that people do everything possible to develop vaccines and treatments so that they can regain their daily lives, and announced that the government will support them to the end.
In April, the government formed and is leading the ‘Crown 19 Pan-Government Support Group for Vaccine Development and Treatment’ centered on the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Deputy Blue House spokesperson Lim Se-eun said: “President Moon promised to cooperate and cooperate with President Bill Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is dedicated to the development of the Corona 19 vaccine. He said that both both inside and outside the president are focusing their attention on the development of the Corona 19 vaccine, including the activities of support as president and support.
(Seoul = News 1)
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