[브리핑] First dose of vaccine begins… AstraZeneca from 9am on the 26th

The government will begin vaccinating AstraZeneca (AZ) from Corona 19 this Friday morning.

The Central Defense Countermeasure Headquarters (Bang Dae-bon) today (22nd) explained the preparations for the Corona 19 vaccination, and announced that “AstraZeneca’s vaccination will begin at 9am on the 26th.”

Those who receive the vaccine first are residents and workers under the age of 65 at nursing hospitals, nursing facilities, and mental care and rehabilitation facilities nationwide.

As of the last 20 days, a total of 289,000 people agreed to vaccination.

Vaccine is a product produced by SK Bioscience, a domestic consignment manufacturer, and plans to supply about 750,000 people (1.5 million doses) sequentially to the distribution center in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do for five days from the 24th to the 28th.

The amount required for the first vaccination will be transported to public health centers and nursing hospitals nationwide from the 25th.

Dae-bon Bang explained, “The medical institution that the contracted doctor is affiliated with to visit nursing hospitals and nursing facilities where vaccination is performed must complete the contract with a consignment medical institution and receive training in advance.”

Each local government is planning to conduct preliminary inspections for vaccination institutions for safe vaccination.

The 58,000 vaccines (117,000 doses) of Pfizer received through the co-purchase international project’COVAX facility’ will also be vaccinated this week.

The amount of Pfizer received through Kovacs has gone through special income.

Special import is a system that allows drugs that are not approved domestically to be imported from abroad to cope with the pandemic of infectious diseases, and was utilized in the process of introducing remdesivir, a treatment for COVID-19.

Pfizer’s vaccine will be given priority to about 55,000 people, including those in hospitals dedicated to infectious diseases, treatment beds for severely ill patients, and hospitals that treat corona19 patients, such as life treatment centers.

Of the 58,29 people who would get the Pfizer vaccine, 94.6% (54,910 people) agreed to the vaccination.

Daebon Bang explained, “Pfizer vaccine is carried out at the central and regional corona 19 vaccination centers,” and “in hospitals dedicated to infectious diseases with more than 120 vaccination targets, their own vaccination is also performed.”

The vaccination is performed in the order of the central vaccination center, the regional/regional vaccination center, and the self-vaccinating medical institution.

The government plans to open the’Vaccination Registration’ function from the 25th, where each vaccination institution can search targets and enter related records before the full-scale vaccination begins.

Jeong Eun-kyung, head of Bangdae Headquarters, said, “If you use this function, you can check whether you are eligible for vaccination by using the name and resident registration number of the person to be vaccinated.” It.