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US, which has already begun vaccination, is fighting all-out to secure more supplies.

It has purchased an additional 100 million doses of Pfizer's vaccine and has signed a contract to purchase vaccines that have not yet been approved for use.



Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung from Washington reported the situation in the United States.



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US, which is fighting a vaccine speed battle, has distributed over 9 million doses of the corona vaccine nationwide and inoculated it to 1 million people in 10 days.



[Purna/Corona Vaccine Distribution Officer (Army Commander): We are learning to help us.

It's getting better and better every day.]



Pfizer's vaccine has signed an additional 100 million doses.



It was decided to supply raw materials to Pfizer by initiating the Defense Goods Production Act, which requisitions war supplies.



[CEO of Bulla/Pfizer (Interview with CNBC on the 14th): Some raw materials have very critical supply restrictions.

However, there is no problem for the government to do so (by the Defense Goods Production Act).]



With this, in addition to the 400 million doses of Pfizer and Moder or vaccines, we have signed a contract to purchase 400 million doses of 4 vaccines that have not yet been approved.



We plan to invest up to 28.7 trillion won.



The unapproved corona treatment developed by Merck was also bought in advance for 400 billion won.



All of this took less than a year.



[Joseonggwon / National Institutes of Health Research (Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Professor): did everything in one year, from the viewpoint that the whole thing as a government-led I think as very innovative one -



a full-fledged public vaccination from next April begins So, there is a prospect that in summer, we can be liberated from Corona.



[Pouch/President of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases: Umbrella to protect the entire United States will be covered until the middle or end of summer.] The



United States, suffering from severe corona damage, has no alternative but vaccines.



As the U.S. government is engaged in an all-out vaccination war, there are concerns that it will adversely affect the Korean government's vaccine introduction schedule.



(Video coverage: Jeongsik Oh, video editing: Hojin Kim)