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The COVID-19 vaccine, jointly developed by Pfizer and Bioentech, has finally completed the final approval process in the United States and began shipping for the first time.
Some of the early places have already arrived, but as early as a day later, we can see people injecting vaccines into their arms starting on Monday, US time.
This is the correspondent Park Seong-ho from Washington.
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The first Pfizer vaccine was loaded onto a plane and departed for delivery across the United States.
At the factory in Portage, Michigan, where it was produced, the first shipments were shipped this morning with the applause of employees.
The vaccine will be distributed to 2.9 million people, and medical staff and nursing home residents will be the first to receive it.
The fastest where the vaccine was shipped by air has already reached the airport.
Health officials hoped that the corona vaccine would begin as early as tomorrow, Monday, US time.
[스티븐 한/미 식품의약국 국장]
“I hope it goes very quickly, and the vaccinations will take place tomorrow. I have seen the vaccine already depart.”
Prior to this, CDC, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, accepted the advisory committee’s recommendations and finally approved Pfizer’s corona vaccine vaccination today.
The health authorities plan to inoculate 20 million people by the end of the year and 50 million people in January, and to get the corona vaccine to 100 million people within the first quarter of next year.
By speeding up that way, he said he would achieve mass immunity in the US in the late spring of next year.
[몬세프 슬라위/백악관 ‘초고속작전’ 책임자]
“75-80% of the US population needs to be vaccinated. We hope to reach that level next May-June.”
Today, Sunday is the time here, and health experts came out on several broadcasts and said it was a historic day.
It was the first time they laughed wide during an interview.
This is Seongho Park of MBC News from Washington.
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