“Belgium also decided not to get the AstraZeneca vaccine for people over 65”

(Brussels = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Jong-un = A local media reported that the Belgian government will not inoculate a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccine jointly developed by multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University in the UK for the time being.

According to the Brussels Times on the 3rd (local time), Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbrucker made the same statement the day before.

The Belgian federal government decided the night before to follow the Health Commission’s recommendation not to use the AstraZeneca vaccine for those over 65.

“The health committee has very clearly stated that the AstraZeneca vaccine is a very good vaccine for people between the ages of 18 and 55,” he added to the local media VRT News.

“But they also said they don’t currently have enough data to say with certainty about whether the vaccine will be good for older people,” he said. It will be something to do,” he said.

Secretary Pandenbrucker said this is a temporary recommendation and that additional information may be available within a few weeks.

On the 29th of last month, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended approval for conditional marketing in the EU for AstraZeneca-Oxford University’s Corona 19 vaccine for those aged 18 and over.

However, Germany and France have decided to recommend vaccination to those under the age of 65 because there is not yet sufficient data on the effectiveness of this vaccine in the elderly.

Earlier, the immunization committee under the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), a German disease control agency, said that the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine has not been sufficiently clinically tested for those over 65 years old. “Suggest vaccination only for those aged 18 to 64.” Said.

France and Sweden also decided to recommend vaccination to those under the age of 65, and the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) last month recommended that adults aged 18 to 54 should use the vaccine first. I made an opinion.

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