China News Service, November 3, according to Korean media reports, South Korea’s Disease Management Agency revealed that starting from the country’s 2020 influenza vaccination program, as of 0:00 local time on the 3rd, 88 deaths after vaccination have been reported. .
The Department of Diseases stated: “Among the 88 deaths with abnormal reactions reported after vaccination, 83 cases were investigated by epidemiology, basic investigation, and autopsy results. The results showed that it is difficult to confirm the relationship between death and vaccination. "Therefore, this is not the time to consider re-qualification or interruption of the national vaccination program."
Up to now, most of the reported deaths are over 70 years old, accounting for 83.0% (73).
In terms of the regions where the deaths occurred, 6 regions including Seoul, Gyeonggi, Gyeongnam, Jeonbuk, Jeonnam, and Daegu accounted for 69.3% (61 people).
According to previous reports, South Korea will expand its influenza vaccination program in 2020 and intend to provide free vaccinations to approximately 19 million young people and the elderly.
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. The authorities suspended the vaccination plan for three weeks and restarted it 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.
Up to now, among the subjects of the free influenza vaccination program in Korea, more than 11.87 million people have completed the vaccination, and the vaccination rate is about 62.5%.
Among them, 1736 cases reported abnormalities such as fever and local reactions after influenza vaccination, but it has not been confirmed that they are related to vaccination.