Input 2021.02.26 06:52
According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AstraZeneca vaccination will be administered from 9 am on the same day at 1915 public health centers and nursing hospitals. From this day, the targets of receiving AstraZeneca vaccine are those who are hospitalized, inhabited, and workers under the age of 65 in nursing hospitals, nursing facilities, mental care and rehabilitation facilities nationwide. Among them, 28,9480 people agreed to vaccination as of the 25th. The vaccination consent rate is 93.7%.
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Nursing facility residents and workers can receive vaccinations at public health centers. In the case of discomfort, medical staff will also administer vaccination. Separately, 292 nursing hospitals that received the AstraZeneca vaccine are also starting vaccinations.
The Agency for Disease Control and Prevention decided not to designate a specific person as a’vaccine No. 1 vaccinator’. At 9 am on this day, the whole country started vaccination at the same time, and all those who received the vaccination at this time became the 1st vaccination.
The Pfizer vaccine will begin on Saturday 27th. It is held at the Central Vaccination Center in the National Medical Center in Jung-gu, Seoul. 199 workers in this medical center and 101 workers in the treatment hospital for COVID-19 patients in the metropolitan area are subject to vaccination. The vaccine for them is Pfizer’s vaccine introduced through the COVAX facility, an international vaccine supply organization.
The first vaccination for all 55,000 medical staff to treat COVID-19 patients will be completed on the 20th of the following month. The second vaccination is scheduled to be completed on April 10, three weeks later.
The government has secured a total of 79 million vaccines so far. It has secured 10 million AstraZeneca vaccines, 6 million Janssen vaccines, 13 million Pfizer vaccines, 20 million Moderna vaccines, and 20 million NovaVax vaccines.
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