AstraZeneca vaccination for people over 65 Today morning announcement

Input 2021.03.11 06:38

On the morning of the 11th, the government officially announces whether the AstraZeneca vaccine will be vaccinated for the elderly over the age of 65.

According to the quarantine authorities on the day before, the Vaccination Specialist Committee was held in a closed video conference at the Osong Disease Administration in Chungbuk, and discussed these contents.

However, as European countries such as Germany, Sweden, and Belgium, which excluded seniors 65 years of age or older from the priority vaccination targets, change their position to’allowed’ one after another, it is evaluated that Korea is likely to approve the vaccination as well.

In the first quarter of this year, the government was planning to inoculate AstraZeneca vaccine to all workers in nursing hospitals and nursing facilities, as well as hospitalized and inpatients. Excluded from the bar.

If’allowance’ is finally announced on this day, about 370,000 hospitalized, residents and workers over 65 years of age in nursing hospitals and nursing facilities, where vaccinations have been withheld so far, are expected to receive vaccinations from this month.

On the other hand, the number of vaccinations in Korea as of 0 o’clock the previous day reached 44,6941. The vaccination rate is still around 0.85% compared to the domestic population (52 million), but the vaccination rate is likely to rise rapidly as the government plans to expand vaccination targets along with efforts to provide vaccines early.