Instructor listening to AZ vaccine▶ Click here to enlarge
Two days ahead, vaccinations that will help you recover your’lost daily life’ due to the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) in Korea have come two days ahead.
The AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine, which will be the first Corona 19 vaccine in Korea, goes out of the factory after all preparations and goes through distribution centers and goes to public health centers and nursing hospitals around the country. It is not a mock training, but a’real situation’.
According to the quarantine authorities on the 24th, out of about 750,000 AstraZeneca vaccines consigned by SK Bioscience in Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, the first of about 750,000 vaccines (1.5 million doses) will be delivered to the distribution center in Icheon, Gyeonggi, after shipment notification on the morning of that day.
This is the quantity to be met by residents and workers under the age of 65 at nursing hospitals, nursing facilities, and mental care and rehabilitation facilities nationwide.
Vaccines arriving at the distribution center are scheduled to be sequentially shipped to public health centers and nursing hospitals across the country from the 25th, a day later. However, the vaccine is expected to arrive on the 26th in Ulleungdo.
AstraZeneca vaccination starts in earnest from 9 am on the 26th.
To date, about 289,000 people have desired vaccination, including 186,000 people in nursing hospitals, 102,612 people in nursing homes and mental care and rehabilitation facilities. This amounts to 93.6% of all vaccination subjects.
When the amount of vaccine arrives, the movement of nursing hospitals and nursing facilities is expected to accelerate.
In nursing hospitals where doctors are always on duty, the first vaccination must be completed within 5 days after checking the amount of vaccine delivered.
For elderly care facilities and mental care rehabilitation facilities that do not have a resident doctor, the health center visit team or a doctor contracted with the facility visits and inoculates in person according to a fixed schedule.
The AstraZeneca vaccine needs to be given twice, and it is expected to be completed within two quarters.
An official from the Corona 19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team explained that “the vaccine will be supplied before the start date of vaccination.”
Vaccine transport training… AstraZeneca arrives in Daegu▶ Click here to enlarge
Following the nursing hospital, the government is also preparing vaccinations for workers at high-risk medical institutions and first responders for Corona 19.
AstraZeneca in March for 354,393 health care workers, including senior general hospitals, general hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and medical technicians working in hospitals, and 78,513 people including 119 paramedics, epidemiological investigations, and quarantine personnel. Vaccination begins.
The government has been checking the targets since the 18th, and plans to confirm the list soon after determining whether to consent to vaccination.
Separately, the Pfizer vaccine supplied through the COVAX facility, an international project for joint vaccine purchase, arrives in Korea through Incheon International Airport as early as the 26th.
The first arrival is 58,000 (117,000 servings) out of the 10 million contracts with Kobax.
Pfizer vaccine will meet 55,000 medical staff working in hospitals dedicated to infectious diseases, treatment beds for severely ill patients, and life treatment centers from the 27th. The vaccination sites will be expanded to regional and regional vaccination centers starting with the Central Vaccination Center (National Medical Center).
As the vaccination has entered the countdown, the government plans to re-emphasize related information such as precautions and safety.
Vaccination Response Promotion Director Jung Eun-kyung (Director of Disease Control), Choi Won-seok, a professor of infectious medicine at Korea University Ansan Hospital, and Kim Joong-gon, a professor of pediatrics and adolescents at Seoul Medical Center, will inform you about what you need to know before vaccination and cases of adverse reactions abroad at the briefing session that will be held this afternoon.
An official from the promotion team said, “It will be a briefing session where experts will answer questions about what the public may be curious about. We will provide the correct information and communicate with the public so that scientifically verified information can be provided to increase acceptance of vaccination.” .
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