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Countries that have already started vaccinating COVID-19 are speeding up vaccination so that more people can get the vaccine.
The problem is that vaccine supplies are not keeping up with that pace.
Let’s look at the report of Washington Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung, which summarizes the movements of other countries, and then talk with a medical reporter.
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Professor Oh Hyun-seong, who runs a corona test center in Arizona, USA, said that the speed of vaccination has recently increased significantly.
[Hyunsung Oh/Arizona State University Professor: In the case of Arizona, it was one of the slowest vaccinations, but after opening a large playground as an inoculation site, it continues to catch up with other states.]
Initially, it was only 60,000 people a day
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Coronavirus vaccinations in the United States have risen to 1.12 million in just over a month.
President Biden predicts that anyone who wants to be vaccinated by spring will be able to get it.
[Biden/US President: We will be able to get 1.5 million corona vaccines per day.
I'm confident I'll be on the road to mass immunity in the summer.]
But the vaccine is still in short supply.
[Bill Double Lazio/New York Mayor: The vaccine needs to be supplied more urgently.
Urgently, there should be more room for vaccine stock.]
The European Union has warned that Pfizer and AstraZeneca, which have vaccine production plants in Belgium, could block exports to other regions if supplies do not go as promised.
[Stella Kiri Aki Death / EU Health Chair: In the future the company that produces Corona 19 vaccines in the European Union will have to be notified to always advance when you export to other countries -
the US and EU vaccine acquisition and immunization There are also concerns that the pace of the virus could exacerbate the vaccine shortage in other countries.
(Video coverage: Jeongsik Oh, video editing: Hojin Kim)
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