About 676,000 vaccinations… 313 Pfizer 2nd vaccination completed

Pfizer’s second dose of the Corona 19 vaccine began on the 20th, and a total of 313 people were counted to have completed the second dose as of 0 o’clock on the 21st. It is about 0.5% of the targets for the vaccination.

According to the Corona 19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team, an additional 939 people received the Corona 19 vaccine on that day. The cumulative number of vaccinations that completed the first vaccination for 23 days after the COVID-19 vaccination began in Korea on the 26th of last month was 670,000. They all received Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines.

As a result, 84.6% of the 795,981 people who were eligible for priority vaccination in the first quarter have completed the first vaccination so far. It is 1.3% of the domestic population (about 52 million people). Among the vaccinators, 619,000 people received the AstraZeneca vaccine, and 57,487 people received the Pfizer vaccine. These include residents and workers in nursing hospitals and nursing facilities, corona 19 treatment hospitals, health care workers at hospitals above the hospital level, and first responders to Corona 19.

In addition, 262 (98.9%) of the 265 vaccination targets departing the country for essential activities such as economic activities or business trips were also vaccinated.

Meanwhile, the number of cases in which adverse reactions were reported after the Corona 19 vaccination increased 25 on this day to a total of 9,782. Of these, 9,666 cases were common reactions after vaccination, such as muscle pain, headache, fever, chills, and nausea. 89 suspected cases of anaphylaxis, 11 cases including convulsions were reported for severe suspected cases, and 16 cases of death were maintained without further reporting.

Lim So-hyung reporter [email protected]

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