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Paxrovid, an edible drug made by Pfizer, will arrive in Korea tomorrow (13th). A total of 31,000 doses are expected to arrive by the end of this month, and from the day after tomorrow, patients can receive a prescription for free according to the established standards.



First of all, this is reporter Park Jae-hyun.



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is Incheon Bupyeong-gu Public Health Center.



Virtual delivery training for 'Paxrovid', a treatment for COVID-19, is in full swing.



Under the assumption of delivering a liver to immunocompromised recipients, the health center staff asks the doctor in charge of the prescription, then fills the drug at the pharmacy and delivers it to the patient's home.



[Responsible pharmacy pharmacist: You will enter the record of (medication to eat) in stock, right? And (virtual patient name) recorded the prescription for Wonyoung Won. It will be discarded after (patient) returns it.]



21,000 people will arrive tomorrow for 'Pax Lovid', and another 10,000 people will arrive at the end of this month.



This is 4% of the total volume of 762,000 people contracted with Pfizer.



Prescription and medication are provided free of charge from the day after tomorrow.



Priority should be given to those who are over 65 years of age, autoimmune diseases, immunodeficiency virus infections, etc. among those with reduced immunity, who are confirmed within 5 days of symptom onset.



It doesn't matter if you're unvaccinated or have been vaccinated.



When the quantity becomes sufficient, the administration target is also expanded.



If the medicine cannot be delivered to your home, a family member who is quarantined with a home healer can visit a pharmacy and pick up a quarantine pass if they have it.



The government hopes that it will also work for those infected with the Omicron mutation.

[Ryu Geun-hyuk / 1st General Coordinator of Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters: It has a mechanism to prevent virus proliferation, so it is currently judged that it will have a significant effect on



Omicron mutation.]



The quarantine period will be maintained.



You can be punished even if you sell the medicine to someone else or give it to your family or acquaintances because you have leftover medicine.



(Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol, CG: Choi Jae-young, material provided by: Incheon Bupyeong-gu Office)



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