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More than 583,000 people received the vaccine first, including medical staff.
General national vaccinations over the age of 65 will begin next month, and the elderly are expected to be met first.
This news is reporter Kim Hyung-rae.
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Following the residents of nursing hospitals and facilities, and medical staff, general national vaccination will begin next month.
This target is for the general public over the age of 65, and it will be conducted sequentially, starting with the older person.
[Electrolytic iron / Ministry of Public Administration and Security Minister: 65 and the three or more first consider the older of the elderly, we will expedite the consent of the city and county, district, town and cotton, such subjects by beginning next week]
key is ensuring vaccine shipments is.
About 8.5 million people over 65 years old are eligible for vaccination, as estimated by the government earlier.
In order to get all vaccinations within the second quarter as planned, it is necessary to secure enough vaccines such as Modena and Janssen, which have not yet been confirmed, in addition to the confirmed introduction of 4.55 million AstraZeneca vaccines and 3 million Pfizer vaccines.
In the meantime, the World Health Organization's WHO said in some cases of death due to blood clots after vaccinating AstraZeneca in some European countries, it is not related to the vaccine, and should continue to be vaccinated.
[Margaret Harris/World Health Organization (WHO) Spokesperson: So far, there have been no cases of death that have been proven to be due to vaccination.
Therefore, it should be clearly understood that we should continue to use the AZ vaccine.]
Our health authorities explained that the serial number of the vaccine was not introduced in Korea, and that there were no reports of side effects that a blood clot occurred in Korea.
(Video editing: Choi Hye-young, CG: Lee Jong-jung)