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Health authorities have partially stopped vaccinating the Corona 19 AstraZeneca vaccine.
The vaccinations for health teachers, etc., which were scheduled to start tomorrow (8th), have been temporarily postponed, and vaccinations for those under the age of 60 have been completely withheld.
This is reporter Han Sung-hee.
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first targets for which the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has withheld AstraZeneca vaccination are special education, childcare, health teachers, and daycare nursing personnel.
They were scheduled to receive vaccinations at the public health center sequentially starting tomorrow.
The vaccination targets under the age of 60, which were already in progress, were temporarily withheld.
The policy is to keep getting AstraZeneca vaccine for those over 60 years old.
The COVID-19 vaccination response team held an expert advisory meeting today and made this decision for safety reasons.
After confirming the conclusions of the European Medicines Agency on the link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the occurrence of specific blood clots, the decision was made to resume the vaccination.
Earlier, the head of vaccine strategy at the European Medicines Agency said, "In personal opinion, there is a clear link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the occurrence of rare blood clots."
The European Medicines Agency is due to release its results within this week.
Germany has stopped getting AstraZeneca vaccinations for those under the age of 60, and France and Canada for those under the age of 55.
This is because the causality between this vaccine and the occurrence of rare blood clots cannot be ruled out in the age groups where vaccination is prohibited.
In Korea, a female medical staff in their twenties who received the AstraZeneca vaccine was diagnosed with blood clots in the lungs and legs today, and so far, three people were diagnosed with blood clots after receiving the vaccine.