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this week, Korea will also be injected with the Corona 19 vaccine.

Four days later, the AstraZeneca vaccine starts at 9am on Friday, and the next day, Pfizer vaccine will also be available.



In order to form group immunity by November this year, which the authorities aimed at, the inoculation rate must exceed 70%. First, reporter Nam Joo-hyun will tell you what variables will exist.



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day after tomorrow (24th) About 40% of the 750,000 AstraZeneca vaccines shipped in Korea will be delivered to public health centers and nursing hospitals nationwide from the 25th to the 28th.



Starting with the first vaccination at 9 am on the 26th, 289,000 people, including nursing hospital workers and residents, are sequentially hit.



It is recommended to inoculate within 5 days after delivery, so the first vaccination for the first-ranked vaccinations is expected to be completed by the 5th of next month.



From the 8th of next month, about 350,000 medical staff at advanced general hospitals, general hospitals and hospital-level medical institutions will also receive the AstraZeneca vaccine.



About 59,000 Pfizer vaccines received through COVAX Facility will be vaccinated from the day after arrival at the Central Vaccination Center.



94.6% of the subjects agreed to the vaccination



The amount of vaccine that will be vaccinated this week is about 809,000 people, and 1.6% of the Korean people can get it, and there is no set amount for additional introduction.



The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) believes that if the inoculation rate exceeds 70%, 56% of the people can achieve collective immunity by possessing antibodies, assuming an epidemic situation with an infection reproduction index of about 2.



In order to achieve the target population immunity in November, it is important to obtain a vaccine in time and raise the vaccination rate by more than 70%, but there is another variable.



[Eun-Kyung Jung/Director of the Korean Disease Control Center: How much mutant virus occurs, how much it affects the vaccine, etc. are important variables in achieving collective immunity.] The



Economist Intelligent Unit, an economic analysis agency in the UK, is an Asian country such as Korea. It is expected to form collective immunity by the middle of next year.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Hwang Ji-young)