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government has significantly increased the number of people vaccinated from the 6th to the 19th of the following month to achieve the goal of inoculating 70% of the nation before Chuseok. The date can be advanced even if a person under the age of 40 is scheduled to be vaccinated after Chuseok.



Reporter Park Soo-jin reports.



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From the day after tomorrow (26th), the first vaccination for the general public between the ages of 18-49 will start.



The current reservation rate is 66.4%, which is slightly lower than other age groups.



Additional reservations are in progress until the 18th of next month, but if you make a reservation now, it will be right after Chuseok at the earliest.



The government allocated additional vaccines from the 6th to the 19th of next month, increasing the number of reservations by 2 million more.



As 701 million doses of the Moderna vaccine arrive before that, the goal is to reach more people before the Chuseok holiday and achieve the goal of 70% of the nation's primary vaccination.



[Kim Ki-Nam / Head of Vaccination Planning Division, Vaccination Response Promotion Division: A part of the vaccine introduced in early September is used for the part where the reservation is expanded in addition to the week of September 6th (2nd week) and 13th week (3rd week) We inform you that this will



happen

.]

Accordingly, even those who have made a reservation after Chuseok can cancel the existing reservation and make a new reservation ahead of time.



In order for things to go as planned, we must first get 6 million doses of modder or vaccine next week on schedule.



The government hopes to receive about 2 million episodes a week after next week, but we haven't heard a confirmation from Moderna yet.



Reducing the interval between the first and second doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines from 6 weeks to 4 weeks also depends on supply and demand conditions.



[Kim Ki-Nam / Head of Vaccination Planning Division, Vaccination Response Team: We plan to review the vaccine supply and demand situation in the future for the part of extending the inoculation cycle.] When the



quarantine authorities are infected with a delta mutation, the initial virus emission is 300 times higher than that of the existing virus. said a lot.



Therefore, he emphasized the importance of early screening along with vaccination.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Jo Moo-hwan, CG: Seo Hyun-joong, VJ: Oh Se-kwan) 



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