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Moderna vaccines are having supply disruptions, and Pfizer is increasingly difficult to find remaining vaccines, while the amount of AstraZeneca vaccines is increasing recently. The number of recipients for vaccination has decreased, and even if there is a vaccine remaining at the medical institution, there are not many people who will get it.



Reporter Kim Deok-hyun covered the scene.



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A hospital in Gangseo-gu, Seoul.



Today (12th), after the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccine, the remaining 10 doses were thrown away.



One vaccine bottle has 12 doses and can only be administered up to 6 hours immediately after opening, but few people have received the remaining vaccine since the 9th, when the reservation of the remaining vaccine on SNS started.



[Hospital official: I think last night, up to 8 episodes came out. We had no choice but to dispose of it.]



Other hospitals are in a similar situation.



The biggest reason is that the guidelines were changed so that people under the age of 50 cannot receive the AstraZeneca vaccine since last month.



The fact that people in their 50s started getting vaccines from Pfizer or Moderna from the end of last month also had an impact.



If you reserve the remaining vaccine, you can get it on the same day, but you do not want to get the AstraZeneca vaccine.



The reason for avoiding it is that the interval between the 1st and 2nd vaccinations is 8 weeks.



The AstraZeneca vaccine is now only used as a second dose for people aged 60 to 74 years.



The government is cautious about lowering the age limit for the AstraZeneca vaccine.



Experts emphasize that the amount of waste should be minimized in a situation where there is not enough vaccine.



[Jeong Ki-seok/Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital: If there are quite a lot of scraps, you can try a swap. with other countries. Give it to Cobax. There are quite a few countries that do not have AstraZeneca, so there are quite a few countries that do not fit.] The



AstraZeneca vaccine will be introduced tomorrow, with 1028,000 doses, and the remaining amount of this year will be over 7.2 million doses.



(Video editing: Hojin Kim, VJ: Soyoung Shin)  



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