<Anchor> The
first vaccination of the Corona 19 vaccine will begin at 9 am today (26th).
On the first day, 5,200 people in nursing hospitals and facilities nationwide will receive the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Pfizer vaccination will also start tomorrow.
This is Park Soo-jin.
<Reporter>
This is a public health center in Dobong-gu, Seoul that will start vaccination against AstraZeneca from 9 am today.
Ahead of the first vaccination, which will take place in 9 hours, the public health center continued to prepare until late at night.
The vaccination is started simultaneously across the country for residents and workers in nursing hospitals and nursing facilities under the age of 65.
About 289,000 people are eligible for the primary vaccination, and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said at least 5,266 people will get the vaccine a day.
In addition, 292 nursing hospitals nationwide that received the vaccine also receive vaccination within five days according to their own vaccination plan.
The quarantine authorities urged the public to be actively vaccinated.
[Chung Kyung-sil/Disease Management Office Vaccination Management Team Leader: For the formation of group immunity, those who are in the vaccination order are requested to actively participate
in vaccination
.] The
health authorities are
asked to participate
in vaccination within the next month. I plan to finish the first vaccination against
About 58,000 Pfizer vaccines that come through KOVAX, the international vaccine purchasing organization, will also arrive at Incheon Airport at around 12:10 pm today.
This vaccine will be delivered directly to 5 vaccination centers nationwide without going through the distribution center.The first vaccination will be administered tomorrow at the Seoul Central Vaccination Center to the National Medical Center and 300 medical staff in the metropolitan area dedicated to Corona 19 hospitals.