US begins to distribute modal or vaccine… Nearly 250,000 new corona patients

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(Los Angeles = Yonhap News) Correspondent Yoon-seop Jung = The US government has begun distributing a vaccine for Modena’s novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) nationwide following Pfizer.

The US government plans to ship modders or vaccines to the United States from the 20th (local time) through delivery companies FedEx and UPS, CNN broadcast reported on the 19th.

Army General Gustav Ferna, chief operating officer of the’Ultra-High-Speed ​​Operations’ team, who oversees the supply and delivery of the corona vaccine, said at a briefing on the day, “Working on the distribution of modders or vaccines has already begun.” Etc.)

The U.S. government started vaccinating Pfizer on the 14th, and approved the emergency use of the Modena vaccine on the 18th.

With this, the U.S. government, which has secured two vaccines to respond to the corona pandemic, is planning to accelerate the distribution and delivery of the vaccine.

The U.S. will deliver 7.9 million doses of Pfizer and Modena vaccine combined this week, the first week of the corona vaccine, and plans to allocate 20 million doses to each state government by the end of the year.

As such, the U.S. government is implementing a quarantine strategy through vaccination, but the spread of coronavirus remains unabated, with the number of new patients in the U.S. reaching 250,000 per day.

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According to Johns Hopkins University, as of the 18th, the number of confirmed cases was 249,000, and the number of deaths was 2,814.

In addition, the number of patients hospitalized for Corona was 114,000, the highest for 13 consecutive days.

The CNN broadcast said, “Despite the good news related to the corona vaccine, the coronavirus is raging in many parts of the United States.”

The U.S. government and experts have also secured two vaccines, but warned that it is still far to end the corona crisis.

General Funa of the high-speed operation team compared the corona overcoming to the American football game, saying, “Every time you distribute the vaccine, you can advance several yards, but to win the game, you need to defend as well as attack.” I asked for Junsu.

“Vaccines play an important role in ending the epidemic,” said Anthony Pouch, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), stressing that public health measures such as wearing masks should not be abandoned until almost everyone is vaccinated. did.

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