There is growing uncertainty about securing a vaccine for the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). In the first half of the year, the number of vaccines that the government had decided to receive through the international project’CoVax Facility’, a joint vaccine distribution project, decreased from about 1.3 million to 250,000.
On the morning of the 26th of last month, medical staff are preparing for the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine at the Hongseong Health Center in Chungnam. News 1
On the 3rd, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, “On the 2nd (local time), Kovacs informed of the results of the first distribution of the AstraZeneca vaccine.” Initially, in the beginning of last month, the government announced that 2.6 million doses (for 1.3 million people) would be supplied, saying that it had confirmed the quantity it had decided to receive from Kobax for the first half of the year. There is also a possibility that the supply of at least 190,000 people, which was expected to be supplied through Kovacs in 1Q, will also be adjusted.
An official from the Agency for Disease Control and Prevention said, “We are aware that the amount of distribution to KOVAX participating countries has decreased as the quantity received from manufacturers has decreased.” Kovacs said it would deliver 233,700 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to 142 countries by the end of May, a significant decrease from the 336 million doses announced last month.
On the morning of the 26th of last month, medical staff at the Geumcheon-gu public health center in Seoul are inoculating a nursing care provider who received the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine. yunhap news
According to the disease administration, Kovacs plans to provide additional notifications about the distribution volume in February-March and April-May around this weekend.
The domestic vaccination plan may also need to be changed depending on the specific quantity and timing of supply. Excluding the 190,000 AstraZeneca doses that Kovacs decided to receive, only 500,000 doses from Pfizer have been confirmed to be introduced at the end of this month. In the second quarter, Pfizer (for 3 million people), Janssen (for 6 million people), Modena (for 20 million people), and NovaVax (for 20 million people) are scheduled to be supplied sequentially, but it is not confirmed when and how much will come There is a lot of uncertainty.
The Agency for Disease Control and Prevention said, “As soon as the specific introduction schedule is confirmed, we will implement it without disruption by establishing detailed vaccination plans.”
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