<Anchor> The
government temporarily suspended some of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was raised yesterday (the 7th), and the possibility of developing a specific blood clot. This weekend, it was decided whether to resume this vaccine.
This is reporter Song In-ho.
<Reporter> The
Corona 19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team announced that it will decide this weekend whether to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has been partially suspended, as planned.
Earlier, the authorities temporarily suspended the vaccination of 142,000 people, including special school faculty members, health teachers and daycare personnel, and 38,000 people under the age of 60, which were scheduled to begin today, as a result of controversy over the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine. .
It is interpreted as a response to the successive reports of rare blood clots after vaccination in European countries.
Authorities assessed the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine as'effective' based on an announcement by the European Medicines Agency yesterday.
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the authorities in the UK Medicines Health Products Regulation Qingdao announced that it has expressed its position that the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccination outweigh the risks and that the vaccination should be continued.
However, even if the vaccination is resumed, if the controversy related to the specific blood clot does not subside, there is a possibility that the vaccination subjects will avoid the AstraZeneca vaccination, which is a concern that the vaccination plan of the authorities will be disrupted.