Pfizer Vaccine Starts Vaccination in at least 40 countries this year

Russian Sputnik-V Corona 19 vaccine is loaded onto an Argentine Airlines freighter at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport on the 23rd. [로이터=연합뉴스]

According to foreign media reports, at least 40 countries have been vaccinated against the Corona 19 vaccine developed by Pfizer of the United States and Bioentech of Germany or are vaccinated within the year. In addition, seven countries are scheduled to start vaccination in January-March next year.

Pfizer-Bioentech Corona 19 vaccination start point by country (including schedule). Graphic = Reporter Park Kyung-min [email protected]

The’Pfizer Vaccination Country’ is spreading from Europe and North America to the Middle East, South America and Asia. Starting from the UK on the 8th (local time), the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Qatar, Dubai and Switzerland began vaccinating Pfizer in sequence. Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica started vaccinating Pfizer on the 24th. The 27 member states of the European Union (EU) are expected to start vaccination at the same time on the 27th of this month. On the 27th in Oman, Kuwait announced the start of vaccination within the year. Singapore will be vaccinated within this year or next January, Brazil next January, Argentina next January to March, Malaysia next February, New Zealand and Australia next March. On the other hand, the Korean government announced on the 24th that “the Pfizer vaccine will be contracted for 10 million people and will be brought to Korea from the third quarter of next year (July to September).” “Jansen (a Johnson & Johnson affiliate) vaccine has contracted for 6 million people and plans to start vaccination in the second quarter of next year (April to June).” Therefore, even if Korea starts vaccinating the Pfizer vaccine as early as next July, it is 4 to 7 months behind other countries. Kim Woo-joo, a professor of infectious medicine at Korea University’s Guro Hospital, pointed out that “the results of Pfizer vaccinations in other countries will be almost all out in January and February of next year.

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun and others on the 24th, the Japanese government will start vaccination in February next year. First, the plan is to select 50 million people to be vaccinated, divide them into three groups, and inoculate them sequentially. According to this, at the end of February next year, 10,000 medical professionals are first given vaccinations, and then vaccinations for elderly people aged 65 or older will be given at the end of March to early April.

Reporters Lim Sun-young and Lee Geun-pyeong [email protected]