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today (23rd), AstraZeneca vaccination will begin for seniors 65 years of age or older in nursing homes and facilities.
President Moon Jae-in is also vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine today.
Reporter Park Soo-jin reports.
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Among those over 65 years old, patients and workers in nursing hospitals will be vaccinated from today, and residents and workers in nursing and rehabilitation facilities will be vaccinated from the 30th.
The total audience is 375,061.
In nursing hospitals, their own medical staff will inoculate themselves within 2 weeks, and nursing and rehabilitation facilities are visited by health center medical staff within 6 weeks, or the subject visits the public health center to receive the vaccination.
The government received consent from the 11th to last week, and 76.9% of the people said they would get the vaccine.
Compared to the 93.6% consent rate at the time of the survey of nursing hospitals and facilities under the age of 65 a month ago, it is quite different.
In particular, among those 65 years of age or older, the consent rate of hospitalized patients was 72.9%, which was less than that of workers.
Health officials have also said they will try to improve the credibility of the vaccine and relieve the anxiety of the vaccinators.
[Jeong Eun-kyung/Director of the Korea Disease Control Center: I think that the uneasy feelings of the people were also reflected.
We will give you accurate information and detailed information about adverse reactions so that you can judge. (We will thoroughly guide you.)]
President Moon Jae-in and his wife also get the AstraZeneca vaccine today ahead of attending the G7 summit in June.
President Moon urged them not to have any doubts about the safety of the vaccine and to respond to the vaccinations in order.