【Youth Daily 】As the government decided to announce a plan for vaccination against the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) at the end of this month as scheduled, the vaccination preparation process is gaining momentum.
Tae-ho Yoon, head of the quarantine prevention department at the Central Accident Control Headquarters (Heavy Soo-bon), said at a regular briefing on the 22nd that he expects the end of this month, and that there will be a separate announcement from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in relation to the vaccination plan.
◆Corona 19 vaccine vaccination implementation plan…Including vaccination priorities
Earlier, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) announced that it will include the targets and organizations, standards for vaccination, and a management system for adverse reactions after vaccination in the COVID-19 vaccination implementation plan.
The Agency for Disease Control and Prevention also announced a plan to open a management system for corona19 vaccination from next month to receive vaccination appointments and issue vaccination certificates.
The Agency for Disease Control and Prevention plans to start vaccinations for workers in high-risk medical institutions and elderly people living in nursing hospitals and facilities starting next month.
Recommended targets for priority vaccination include the elderly (65 years of age or older), adults with chronic diseases, children and youth education and childcare facilities workers and staff, corona 19 first responders, adults aged 50 to 64, police and fire officials and soldiers, correctional facilities It is known that the treatment center inmates and staff are being reviewed.
The government has previously secured a vaccine that can hit 56 million people through contracts with’Covax Facility’ (an international project for joint purchase and distribution of vaccines) and individual pharmaceutical companies, and is currently a contract to secure 20 million more people. Also in progress.
The government has decided to designate and operate 10,000 consigned medical institutions and 250 vaccination centers for vaccination without disruption, and is currently conducting practical work.
MRNA vaccines such as Pfizer and Modena are administered at the vaccination center. The vaccination center should install a cryogenic freezer to maintain the vaccine storage conditions and perform vaccination within the expiration date of the product.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it has selected SK Bioscience as an agency to conduct the’Corona 19 vaccine distribution management system establishment and operation project’ and has completed the contract.
◆Key distribution and management of vaccination… SK Bioscience is in charge
The government has selected SK Bioscience as a company in charge of distribution and management of the Corona 19 vaccine based on the Internet of Things (IoT) integrated control center.
SK Bioscience is in charge of distribution of vaccines, such as Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Janssen, and’Covax Facility’ (an international project for joint purchase and distribution of vaccines) that will be sequentially entering Korea from the beginning of next month.
SK Bioscience will establish a customized cold chain system for each vaccine to monitor temperature maintenance and delivery routes in real time during vaccine transportation.
In addition to 10 million people through the current international project’COVAX facility’, AstraZeneca (10 million people), Janssen (6 million people), Pfizer (10 million people), Modena (20 million people) They also signed a vaccine purchase contract. It has almost completed a 20 million contract with Nova Bax.
Among them, when the initial volume of Kovacs reaches 50,000, it will be the first to enter Korea early next month.
Looking at the timing of vaccine introduction by pharmaceutical companies, AstraZeneca vaccine will be introduced in stages from February to March, Janssen and Moderna will be available in 2Q, NovaVax in May, and Pfizer in 3Q.
◆Distance into ‘2nd stage’ range… Maintain a gentle decline
As the number of confirmed patients a day stayed in the range of 300 to 400, the’social distance’ stage fell to the 2nd stage in almost two months.
It is pointed out that it is still too early to be relieved considering the fact that the winter season has not yet ended and sporadic infections continue to occur nationwide, with a cautious prospect that the epidemic situation will stabilize anytime soon.
The government is planning to start vaccination as early as early next month while gradually reducing the number of confirmed cases as it is now, but it makes it difficult to respond to quarantine such as’asymptomatic infections’ more than 20% and mutant viruses from the UK, South Africa and Brazil. The’risk factor’ that does not go away is becoming a variable.
It is known that the government will continue to observe the trend of more confirmed cases for the time being, discuss the reorganization of the distancing system, and consider whether to ease it.
Looking at the situation for the last week, an average of 410.9 new cases per day came out. Among them, the number of confirmed local outbreaks, which is a key indicator of the adjustment of the distance stage and can determine the outbreak in the community, was counted as an average of 384 per day. This is the first time since the third pandemic began to spread rapidly, this number has dropped to 300.
As of November 27, last year, it was about two months, or exactly 57 days, after an average of 382.3 people per day for the previous week. Exceeding the current 2.5-stage standard (over 400 to 500 nations or a rapid increase in patients such as doubling), it entered the second-stage range (over 300 nations).
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