Prime Minister 丁 “Pfizer vaccine vaccinated by medical staff from 27th for 58,500 people”… Cobax quantity

Input 2021.02.21 15:22 | Revision 2021.02.21 15:58

“Please believe in the government and actively participate in vaccination”

117,000 doses of Pfizer’s corona vaccine (55 million people), which were decided to be supplied by the international project’COVAX Facility’, a vaccine joint purchase and distribution project, will arrive in Korea on the 26th. The vaccine will be given to medical staff starting on the 27th.

Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun said, “117,000 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine will arrive in Korea on the 26th and be inoculated to medical personnel to treat COVID-19 patients from the 27th” said.

According to the World Vaccine Immunity Association (GAVI), there are 18 countries that Covax supplies Pfizer vaccines in the first quarter, with a total volume of 1.2 million doses (for 600,000 people). Most of the countries receiving the vaccine are developing countries with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of $3,000-6,000, including Tunisia, Bolivia, El Salvador, Georgia, the Philippines, Palestine, Mongolia and Bhutan. The fact that Korea, which has a GDP of more than $30,000 per capita, introduces the Pfizer vaccine through COVAX among these countries, has been controversial in the political world.

Prime Minister Chung said, “On the 26th, the first vaccination will be made in nursing hospitals and nursing facilities with the domestically produced AstraZeneca vaccine. As the government has verified safety and effectiveness, the people believe this and actively participate in vaccination. “Please do it.”

Prime Minister Chung said, “Recently, some political circles are creating social anxiety by using stimulating terms that are far from reality, such as’water vaccine’ or’refusal of vaccination’,” he said. “Please refrain from using vaccines as the subject of political disputes, and Everyone asks for strength.”