36 people died from influenza vaccination Korean Disease Agency: Unconfirmed relevance will continue

　　China News Service, October 23. According to Korean media reports, on the 23rd local time, the Korean Agency for Disease Control said that after analyzing the cases that died after influenza vaccination, it did not confirm the correlation between the cause of death and vaccination, so it will continue Vaccination project.

　　As of 1 pm on the 23rd local time, the total number of deaths in South Korea after being vaccinated with influenza has reached 36.

　　The Korean Agency for Disease Control said that it had reviewed 26 deaths, and the results did not confirm the direct connection between the cause of death and vaccination.

Therefore, it is not necessary to interrupt vaccination at this time.

　　According to reports, the experts who attended the meeting that day analyzed 26 of the 36 deaths after vaccination.

In order to further study and analyze the data, the Vaccination Committee will meet again on the morning of the 24th to discuss future vaccination plans.

　　On October 16, a 17-year-old teenager in Incheon City died after being vaccinated with influenza. Similar cases in South Korea continued to increase.

Korean media pointed out on the 22nd that among the related deaths, from the perspective of age, people over 60 accounted for about 88%.

From a regional perspective, Gyeongsangbuk-do has the most.

　　According to previous media reports, South Korea will expand its influenza vaccination program in 2020 and intend to provide free vaccination to approximately 19 million teenagers and elderly people.

When the plan was launched at the end of September, it was discovered that during the delivery of about 5 million doses of free vaccines, the whole process of refrigeration failed to comply with the specifications, so it was suspended for three weeks and restarted on October 13.

So far, 8.3 million people have been vaccinated, and a total of 350 people have reported adverse reactions.

　　Professor Kim Nam-joong of the Department of Infectious Medicine at Seoul National University Hospital said that the "cold insulation" and "white particles" of the vaccine this year have undoubtedly caused people to doubt the safety of the vaccine, but the fatality rate of the influenza vaccine is almost zero, and the safety of the vaccine should no problem.