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Corona 19 vaccination has begun in the United States.
It was a New York nurse who got the first shot.
The US, where more than 300,000 people have died from corona, is planning to increase vaccinations as quickly as possible.
Correspondent Jong-won Kim delivered this news from New York.
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Cheers erupt when the first vaccine arrives at health authorities in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Vaccines were shipped one after another to Florida, Illinois, Arizona, and Kentucky.
The first vaccinated person was a nurse working in an intensive care unit at a hospital in New York City.
[Sandra Lindsay: I am full of hope today.
I feel a sense of relief.
I feel healed.] The selection of the
Jamaican immigrant black nurse Lindsay as the first vaccinator was intended to alleviate the anti-vaccination sentiment prevalent in black and ethnic minorities, American media interpreted.
Currently, the vaccine is given first to the vulnerable, such as medical staff and inpatients in nursing hospitals, but the US health authorities plan to increase the supply of the vaccine to the general public by February of next year.
[Alex Aiza/Minister of Health: 50 million doses of vaccine are expected to be prepared by the end of January, and 200 million people are expected to receive the vaccine by February.]
However, at the end of the year, as the coronavirus spread horribly, the day the first vaccination began, the number of corona19 deaths in the United States exceeded 300,000.
Amid concerns that the medical system could collapse as the number of confirmed coronaviruses continues to increase, particularly in hospitalized patients, New York Governor Cuomo said it is considering a plan to block the state altogether as last spring.
(Video coverage: Lee Sang-wook, video editing: Jung Yong-hwa)