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former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States delivered an exclusive interview last weekend that said that Korea should be made into a vaccine production hub in Asia. The Blue House decided to promote this plan on the agenda of the ROK-US summit scheduled for next month.



This is an exclusive report from Washington Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung.



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Blue House's plan is to discuss a plan to designate Korea as an Asian corona vaccine hub on the agenda of the ROK-US summit next month.



Regarding the idea of ​​a vaccine hub country in which Korea will transfer vaccine technology to serve as a production base in Asia, a senior Blue House official said there was no reason to refrain from discussing that it is not only helpful in early supply of vaccines, but also that the two countries are win-win. .



[Il Lee/Director of Pan-Government Vaccine Introduction Task Force (last 26th): We already agree on the need to secure technology for mRNA vaccines. If progress is made, we plan to actively cooperate and support.]



The White House

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said that it is considering a temporary exemption from vaccine intellectual property rights in order to maximize the production and supply of corona vaccine.



[Jen Saki/White House Spokesperson: We are considering whether it would be effective to produce vaccines in the United States and supply them to the world, or whether it would be better to waive intellectual property rights.] The



IPR exemption is strongly opposed by vaccine companies, but the vaccine supply is not. It is becoming difficult for the United States to ignore the global demand to increase.



Tom Frieden, who served as the CDC director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, insisted in an interview with SBS that Korea should be used as an Asian mRNA vaccine production hub to help the United States.



[Tom Frieden/Former CDC Director: Korea has tremendous capacity to produce vaccines. Korea can be a vaccine producer not only for Korea, but for the whole of Asia.]



Mijeong Han will be a vaccine talk about whether a plan to turn Korea into an Asian vaccine hub will be an alternative solution to the global vaccine famine. Interest is being focused on the business meeting.



(Video coverage: Park Eun-ha, Video editing: Jung Yong-hwa)