China News Service, October 29. According to Korean media reports, on the 29th local time, the Korean Disease Management Agency stated that as of 0:00 local time, a total of 72 people in South Korea had died after being vaccinated with influenza.
According to reports, as of 0:00 local time on the 26th, a total of 59 people in South Korea have died after being vaccinated with influenza.
Since the 26th, another 13 people in South Korea have died after receiving the flu vaccine.
So far, 72 people have died after receiving influenza vaccine in South Korea.
The Korean Agency for Disease Control said, “As of now, the correlation between death and vaccination is very low among the 71 deaths studied. Therefore, it is not time to recheck the vaccine or interrupt vaccination.”
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 about 5 million doses of free vaccines had not been refrigerated in accordance with the specifications during the delivery process, so it was suspended for three weeks and restarted on October 13.
On October 16, a 17-year-old teenager in Incheon City died after being vaccinated with influenza. Since then, similar cases in South Korea have continued to increase.