Government Announces Detailed Implementation Plan for Vaccination Tomorrow … Sequential Inoculation Starting February

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The government will announce the detailed implementation plan for vaccination against the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) on the 28th.

Before the vaccination, which will be implemented starting next month, detailed information will be released including the first vaccination target, the vaccination institution, the implementation standards and the post-vaccination reaction management system.

According to the Central Headquarters for Security and Disaster Countermeasures on the 27th and the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters (Bang Daebon), the government will hold an information session at 2:10 pm on the 28th to disseminate the plan implementation of vaccination.

It has not been confirmed who will give the briefing, but it is very likely Jung Eun-kyung, head of the Department of Defense and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) introduced a large vaccination plan with the goal of building group immunity in November by providing a free first vaccination for 70% of the stock before September through the New Year’s Work Plan on the 25th. It did.

According to this, in the first quarter, employees of nursing hospitals, medical wellness centers for the elderly and high-risk medical institutions, in the second quarter, employees aged 65 and over and medical institutions and wellness centers for people elderly at home, and those with chronic diseases and adults (19-64 years) in the third trimester Continue with vaccination.

As most of the Corona 19 vaccine is double-vaccinated, prioritization is established until the third trimester, and from the fourth trimester the second vaccination and unvaccinated people will be vaccinated.

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In addition, inoculation institutions are classified according to the vaccination platform.

The ‘mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) vaccine’, which is difficult to store like Pfizer and Moder, is scheduled to be vaccinated through some 250 inoculation centers across the country.

The Pfizer vaccine should be kept at around -70 degrees Celsius, and the modena vaccines should be kept at -20 degrees Celsius.

The vaccination center is known to use separate local government operational facilities, such as a local gym.

Viral vector vaccines such as AstraZeneca and Janssen are expected to be vaccinated through some 10,000 private medical institutions. The government is planning to designate a medical institution that meets the designated standards among the medical institutions consigned for the national vaccination project as a vaccination institution.

Also, in the case of special facilities, such as military or nursing homes, vaccination is administered by the institution itself or by visiting a local public health center.

The government plans to hire about 6,000 people in vaccination centers and 25,000 people in general medical institutions by obtaining human resources trained for the characteristics of the vaccine.

To this end, the private sector sends medical staff groups and volunteer groups such as the Korean Medical Association, the Korean Hospital Association, and the Korea Nursing Association, and related ministries send doctors and nurses in public affairs and hospitals. public, military and military doctors. nurses and administrative staff, respectively.

A system is also established to manage adverse reactions after vaccination.

The government plans to look for previously unknown adverse reactions through joint monitoring and monitoring by the Korea Disease Administration and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, vaccination assistant applications (apps), and an active adverse reaction monitoring system. through medical institutions.

At the central government level, a joint damage investigation team is established within the ‘Crown Vaccination Response Promotion Team 19’, where relevant ministries such as the Korea Disease Services Agency, Ministry of Security of Food and Medicines and the Ministry of Public Administration and Security participates, to evaluate the causality of serious adverse reactions and the use of vaccines An organization dedicated to vaccination will be established to supervise the inspection of adverse reactions after vaccination in the centers of vaccination and medical institutions consigned.

If the causality of vaccination and adverse reactions are confirmed, compensation will be made through the national compensation system for vaccination damages.

The government also plans to closely manage the entire process, such as vaccine supply and demand management, vaccination guide, early booking, vaccination registry, and adverse reaction monitoring by establishing a separate integrated system. for COVID-19 vaccination.

Meanwhile, the government has signed vaccine purchase contracts with the international project ‘COVAX Installation’ and four pharmaceutical companies, AstraZeneca, Janssen, Pfizer and Modena, insuring a total of 56 million people. Furthermore, the purchase contract for 20 million people with Nova Bax is almost finished, and when the contract is finalized, a total of 76 million people will be secured.

Among them, when the initial volume of Kovacs reaches 50,000, it will be the first to enter Korea early next month.

The AstraZeneca vaccine is expected to be introduced from February to March, the Janssen Modena vaccine will be introduced in the second quarter, and the Pfizer vaccine will be introduced in the third quarter.

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