[사회]”Begin vaccination in February-March next year…Group immunity target for the third quarter”

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As controversy continued over the timing of the corona 19 vaccination, etc., the government announced the vaccination plan currently being established.

The goal is to achieve collective immunity by the third quarter by starting vaccinations in high-risk groups, such as workers in medical institutions, around February-March next year.

Reporter Park Hong-gu on the report.

[기자]

The government is setting up a plan so that vaccines can be vaccinated as soon as they become available from February to March next year.

First, we plan to expand vaccinations starting with workers at high-risk medical institutions, then the elderly living in group facilities such as nursing homes, the elderly over 65 years old, and those with high-risk chronic diseases.

[정은경 / 중앙방역대책본부장 : 예방접종전문위원회의 심의를 계속 거치면서 접종의 순위나 접종대상자를 선정하는 절차를 진행할 예정에 있습니다.]

Currently, the vaccine contracted by the government is an amount capable of hitting 26 million people, including 10 million AstraZeneca and Pfizer, and 6 million Janssen.

Discussions are underway for the first quarter supply of 10 million people who have decided to purchase through Cobax Facility.

Therefore, the government’s goal is to achieve collective immunity by applying vaccines to the majority of the people within the third quarter, as it becomes possible to secure a significant amount of vaccines in the second to third quarters.

However, some uncertainty remains.

[정은경 / 중앙방역대책본부장 : 아스트라제네카나 얀센 같은 경우는 허가에 대한 이슈가 아직 남아있는 상황이고, 백신 생산량이나 유통에 문제가 생기는 등 백신과 관련해서는 불확실성이 상당수 있습니다.]

In addition, the government is preparing agencies for vaccination in two ways, taking into account the characteristics of each vaccine type.

Vaccines such as Pfizer that require cryogenic distribution at -60 to 90 degrees Celsius are equipped with a freezer to operate a separate vaccination center, and vaccines that can be stored refrigerated at 2 to 8 degrees Celsius are entrusted to other medical institutions for vaccination.

In addition, if an adverse reaction occurs after vaccination, the national compensation system will be applied to damages with confirmed causality.

The government plans to finalize and announce a detailed plan for vaccination in January next year.

This is YTN Park Hong-gu.

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