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other countries start vaccination and are working hard to secure the amount of vaccine, then we are really curious about exactly when we can get the vaccine, but the government has not come up with a cool answer to this.

Even today (18th), the government will bring in the vaccine in February or March next year and inoculate it in stages. This is a repeat of the existing policy, but the specific timing of vaccination has not been disclosed.



For more details, reporter Nam Joo-hyun will deliver.



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health authorities that opened a briefing on the Corona 19 vaccine 10 days after the first briefing on the 8th.



I was interested in whether a specific vaccination time would come out, but there was no cool answer.



It repeated the announcement that the AstraZeneca vaccine will be introduced in February-March next year, and the Pfizer, Modena, and Janssen vaccines did not reveal a specific timing of when next year.



[Lim In-taek/Ministry of Health and Welfare Health Industry Policy Bureau: If we ask for it, we plan to match it with the production capacity of global companies and come in sequentially.] It



is a story that the timing of introduction actually depends on the supply capacity of pharmaceutical companies. There was no news of any further contracts other than that it is negotiating with NovaVax, which is developing an antigen vaccine.



Particularly, Pfizer and Modena were scheduled to sign a contract within this year, but the contract with Modena passed into January next year.



Contracts with some vaccine manufacturers are being delayed, and the government's inconsistent position on vaccines is raising concerns.



First of all, while watching the foreign situation where vaccination was started, and repeating the previous position of vaccination when safety is secured, AstraZeneca vaccine will be vaccinated immediately if it is prepared even before approval by other countries.



[In-Taek Lim/Director of Health Industry Policy Bureau, Ministry of Health and Welfare: You don't have to wait until February to March if the approval for use by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety is approved and consultation with AstraZeneca.]



There are 10 million vaccines to be secured through KOVAX, an international vaccine joint purchase agreement. However, there are observations that it will not be easy to bring it into March next year, as it is being discussed with Kovacs on the introduction plan within the first quarter.



(Video coverage: Jung Seong-hwa·Kim Yong-woo, video editing: Kim Jong-woo) 



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