AstraZeneca vaccine introduced by Korea, first vaccination in the UK of the fourth

Check-in 2021.01.04 07:38

The AstraZeneca-Oxford corona vaccine, which was previously purchased by the Korean government, will be vaccinated for the first time in the UK on day 4 (local time). It has been about a month since the first Pfizer-Bioentech vaccination started on the 8th of last month.

The British Daily Guardian and other local media reported on the 3rd that the UK government will start vaccinating AstraZeneca in major university hospitals and medical hospitals from the 4th.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also appeared on the BBC and said: “We have finished distributing 530,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to vaccination centers across the UK” and “we will start vaccination on day 4.”

According to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), vaccines are first available in 700 hospitals, with hundreds, mainly GPs, to be added this week. 530,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have already been transported to hospitals across the country and are waiting to be vaccinated.

Dr. George Findley of the Princess Royal Hospital, where the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived on day 2, told The Guardian: “Hundreds of employees are expected to be vaccinated daily.” He predicted: “Unlike the Pfizer vaccine, which must be stored and stored at cryogenic temperatures of -70 degrees Celsius, the AstraZeneca vaccine will be much easier to inoculate as it can be stored at normal refrigerator temperatures.”

The AstraZeneca vaccine will take place about a month after the UK launched the world’s first Pfizer vaccination on the 8th of last month. In the UK, more than 1 million people have already received the Pfizer vaccine. If the second vaccine is on stage, the vaccination rate in the UK is expected to rise even faster.

However, controversy persists over the fact that the UK government has set the first and second vaccination intervals for this vaccine at 12 weeks.