As the omicron mutation pandemic continues, the government will start vaccinating COVID-19 for children aged 5-11 from the end of this month.
Jeon Hae-cheol, the 2nd deputy director of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters (Minister of Public Administration and Security), said in a remark on the 14th, "The government is planning to vaccinate children aged 5 to 11, who have been excluded from vaccination, 1 nationwide. It will be implemented from the end of March through 1,200 designated consigned medical institutions,” he said.
According to the main script, advance reservations will be made from the 24th of this month, and vaccinations will be implemented from the 31st.
"The safety and effectiveness have been sufficiently verified in overseas countries where the vaccination was administered before us," said Jeon, the second deputy director.
He continued, "In order to ensure the normal progress of the school schedule at each level, the 3rd dose of the 12- to 17-year-old adolescents 3 months after the completion of the primary vaccination will also be administered from today." Please participate."
"The COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Committee recently announced the results of a study acknowledging the causality between mRNA vaccination and the occurrence of 'myocarditis'," the former second vice president said. We will expand the scope of medical expenses and damage compensation related to vaccination by adding 'myocarditis' and expanding the types of adverse reactions for which subsidies are paid according to statistical relevance from 7 to 11."