Domestic vaccine’No. 1 vaccinator’ is not specified… “Nationwide simultaneous vaccination at 9 am”

“Hospitals and facilities for all residents and workers under 65 years of age,’#1′”

The AstraZeneca vaccine, which departed from the Gtree B&T distribution center in Icheon City, arrived at the Jungnang-gu Health Center in Seoul on the 25th, and an official is transferring it to the storage room. / Reporter Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

[아시아경제 김지희 기자] The government has decided to start vaccinations nationwide at the same time, without specifying one individual inoculated with Corona 19 vaccine in Korea.

On the 25th, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said in its admission statement on the 25th that, rather than assigning the meaning of “one specific person vaccinated with the Corona 19 vaccine as’No. 1 vaccination’,” “There is.” The Agency for Disease Control explained, “Tomorrow (26th) at 9 am, nursing hospitals and nursing facilities hospitalized under the age of 65-all residents and workers will be the first inoculations.”

In addition, the Agency for Disease Control and Prevention has decided to disclose the site where the first vaccination will be performed at the public health center in Dobong-gu, Seoul from 9 am on the 26th. At Dobong-gu public health center, about 60 nursing facility workers receive the AstraZeneca vaccine. First, 10 people receive the vaccine for 30 minutes from 9:00 to 9:30.

As in Korea, it is rare even in overseas countries where the No. 1 vaccine recipient is not determined. For this reason, there is an interpretation that the decision was made in consideration of the controversy over the number 1 inoculation that has recently emerged around the political world. In particular, in the case of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the vaccination schedule was delayed due to lack of clinical data for elderly people aged 65 or older, and some of the opposition party argued that President Moon Jae-in should be the first inoculation.

Reporter Kim Ji-hee [email protected]