President Moon Jae-in is talking with Jung Eun-kyung, head of the Central Defense Response Headquarters (Disease Management Administration) after completing a simulation training for transporting the Corona 19 vaccine held at the Korean Air cargo terminal at Incheon International Airport on the morning of the 3rd. yunhap news
“Even if the Pfizer vaccine comes in right away, the transport, storage and distribution plans seem to be working well.”
President Moon Jae-in, who visited the simulation training for the transport of a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccine held at the Korean Air cargo terminal in Jung-gu, Incheon, on the morning of the 3rd, said to officials of the quarantine authorities and requested cooperation.
The simulation training held on this day was a training in which a (model) vaccine was unloaded from an airplane and mounted on a refrigerated vehicle to be transported to the distribution center in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, assuming that the vaccine was imported from abroad. Officials from related organizations, including Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Byeon Chang-heum, Defense Minister Seo-wook, and Center for Disease Control and Prevention Jeong Eun-kyung (Central Defense Countermeasure Headquarters) also attended.
First, Commissioner Chung explained the progress, saying, “For vaccines that require cryogenic freezing, transportation, distribution, and storage are paramount.” did.
Subsequently, through the video, the vaccine arrives at the airport and moves to the warehouse in the first step, the airport to the logistics warehouse in the second step, the vaccine arriving at the warehouse in the third step and storage, the stored vaccine is shipped and the inoculation agency The process up to the 4th step of transporting to the airport was screened.
President Moon Jae-in is on the move to attend a simulation training for the transportation of the Corona 19 vaccine held at the Korean Air cargo terminal at Incheon International Airport on the morning of the 3rd. yunhap news
President Moon Jae-in observes the vaccine logistics process at the Corona 19 vaccine transportation simulation training held at the Korean Air cargo terminal at Incheon International Airport on the morning of the 3rd. yunhap news
After watching the video, President Moon asked, “In cases like Pfizer, cryogenic freezers and cryopreservation are necessary,” and “Pfizer vaccines come in faster than originally planned, but are there any difficulties in preparation?”
Commissioner Jeong replied, “117,000 doses through COVAX will come in about February first,” he said. “Once I prepared a cryogenic freezer accordingly. There is currently no problem in digesting the quantity.”
On the afternoon of the afternoon of the 3rd, the afternoon of the 3rd, when the ministry’s joint simulation training for the safe distribution of the Corona 19 vaccine was conducted, a vaccine transport training vehicle is arriving at the Central Vaccination Center at the National Medical Center in Jung-gu, Seoul. yunhap news
President Moon said, “There may be an unexpected unexpected situation during transportation. In the case of the United States, there are reports that in Oregon, when a transport vehicle was blocked by snow and could not move, people nearby were given the vaccine first. We need tips to deal with the situation,” he said.
He said, “The site control tower for vaccination is the Agency for Disease Control and Prevention, but it requires cooperation from many ministries in the process,” he said. “It is expected that when the vaccine comes in, all the people’s interest will be attracted. As you have accomplished, please show me in the vaccination.”
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