400 people again in four days… Secured 79 million vaccines
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There were 457 new cases of Corona 19 yesterday.
The number of new confirmed cases rose to 400 again in four days.
Press station connect.
Reporter Kim Jang-hyun.
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There were 457 new corona19 confirmed cases a day yesterday, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases reached 84,325.
The number increased by 114 from the day before, and in four days, it rose to 400 again.
Of these, 429 confirmed cases of local outbreaks, excluding 28 foreign inflows.
There were 303 people in the metropolitan area, including 155 people in Seoul and 129 people in Gyeonggi Province, of which 82 were confirmed by the temporary inspection station, accounting for 27% of the infected people in the metropolitan area.
126 confirmed cases also occurred in the non-metropolitan area, rising to three digits in about two weeks.
Two-digit confirmed cases were found in 3 provinces, including 58 in Chungnam, 17 in Busan, and 11 in Daegu, and confirmed cases of regional infection were in 16 provinces nationwide excluding Sejong, including 7 in Ulsan and Chungbuk, 6 in Gyeongnam, and 5 in Jeonbuk. .
At a manufacturing plant in Asan, Chungcheongnam-do, more than 50 confirmed patients have been confirmed so far, and confirmed cases are following a group infection that occurred in a large hospital in Seoul.
The number of confirmed patients who were cured and released from quarantine increased by 757 a day, 8,240 patients undergoing quarantine treatment and 166 patients with severe gastric disorders.
The number of deaths yesterday increased by 7 a day to 1,534.
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The government announced that it has secured a total of 79 million people by contracting an additional 23 million copies of the Corona 19 vaccine, right?
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The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it has confirmed the introduction of a total of 79 million vaccines by contracting an additional 23 million copies of the Corona 19 vaccine from Pfizer and NovaVax.
The vaccines for which additional contracts were signed are 3 million Pfizer and 20 million NovaVax.
The Agency for Disease Control and Prevention explained that the introduction of 500,000 Pfizer vaccines, which was originally in the third quarter, was advanced to the end of March, and 3 million more will be introduced in the second quarter.
Currently, the Pfizer vaccine is undergoing approval review by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, and vaccination is scheduled to begin in April when the national shipment approval for the vaccine introduced in late March is completed.
In addition, NovaVax vaccine is expected to be introduced sequentially from the second quarter after completing a contract for 20 million people. Through technology transfer, it will be produced and supplied at SK Bioscience’s domestic factory.
NovaVax vaccine is a synthetic antigen method, which is a vaccine on a platform different from the mRNA or virus carrier method previously purchased by the government.
So far, the news agency has delivered it.
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