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AstraZeneca vaccine, which is expected to enter Korea in the first quarter of next year, has applied for approval in the UK.

The UK government is expected to approve the vaccine as early as shortly after Christmas.



For more details, reporter Jung Joon-hyung will deliver.



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AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical Co., which jointly developed the Corona 19 vaccine with Oxford University, has applied to the UK government for approval.



[Mat Hancock/British Minister of Health: We are pleased to be able to announce that the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK has been submitted to health authorities for approval.]



Health officials are also screening during the Christmas holidays

.

It is said that the vaccine will be approved as early as immediately after Christmas.



Earlier, the UK ordered 100 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.



In clinical trials, AstraZeneca vaccine showed higher efficacy when only half the dose was used in the first dose, and further studies are noteworthy.



In the meantime, a new mutant virus has been identified in the UK.



This time, it was transferred from South Africa and was found to be far stronger than the previously discovered mutant virus.



The mutant virus is spreading across the country as the British government has suspended flights and passengers from South Africa.



[Netanyahu/Israel Prime Minister: Although the UK and other countries have taken corrective measures to block incoming flights, the virus is also spreading in Israel.] The number



of new coronavirus

cases in the

UK is also the highest, with more than 39,000 confirmed

cases

a day. And there is growing concern that the medical system will collapse if this trend is followed.



(Video editing: Jang Hyeon-ki)  



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