<Anchor> The
investigation continued after authorities announced that the flu vaccine had been exposed to room temperature, but contrary to the original description, at least 200 people were found to have received the vaccine.
It was a vaccine provided for free vaccination, but it was confirmed that some people paid for it.
This is reporter Kim Hyung-rae.
<Reporter> The Korea
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention insisted that no one has ever gotten the flu vaccine that could have been exposed to room temperature.
However, the actual investigation revealed that 105 people in four regions were vaccinated, but afterwards, Jeonju City revealed that 119 people were additionally vaccinated, causing confusion over the count.
On the night of the 21st, it announced the suspension of vaccinations, but the agency explained that this fact was not properly communicated to frontline medical institutions.
[Eun-kyung Jung/Director of the Korea Disease Control Center: Because we were unable to provide all such information to 20,000 medical institutions...
.] At
a hospital in Jeonju, on the night of the 21st, 60 people received the vaccine for a fee before the vaccination problem broke out.
They didn't even follow the rules to keep free and paid vaccines separate.
[Kim Shin-sun/Director of Jeonju City Health Center, Jeonbuk: It is also a problem if the free inoculum was opened and used in advance.] The
health authorities said that there have been no adverse reactions among those who received the vaccine in question
.
Emphasized that is very small.
However, since the vaccines in question have been mixed and used in the medical field, and health authorities have not been able to determine the size of the vaccine exposed to room temperature so that the accident will occur five days ago, anxiety about the flu vaccine continues to grow.
(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Kim Jong-tae)