South Korean Prime Minister Kim Bo-kyum called today, Sunday, government offices to consider providing various incentives to encourage more people to receive vaccination against the emerging "Corona" virus, and to accelerate efforts to sign bilateral agreements with major countries to exempt people who have received vaccination from quarantine. Health for two weeks in each state.
During the meeting held today in Seoul, on countermeasures to the "Corona" virus, Keum called on the people to trust the government and get the vaccine, without being affected by unfounded allegations about vaccines, according to Yonhap News Agency.
He confirmed that a survey of those 65 years of age or older who received the "AstraZeneca" vaccine showed 89.5% of the preventive effect, and 100% of the prevention of death, adding that most of the side effects of the Covid-19 vaccines were mild.
In a related context, the South Korean Agency for Disease Control and Prevention stated that more than 3.7 million people had been vaccinated against the emerging "Corona" virus, Covid-19, as of Saturday, as the country intensified its vaccination program against the virus by providing more vaccines.
The agency indicated in a statement today, that 3 million 733 thousand and 796 people have been given the first dose of the vaccine as of Saturday, as part of the vaccination program that began on February 26, which represents about 7.3% of the country's total population of 52 million. breeze.
She added that the total number of people who received the first and second doses of the vaccine reached 935,357 people as of Saturday, which represents about 1.8% of the total population of the country, noting that the AstraZeneca vaccine was given to 2.05 million people, while 1.69 million vaccines received Pfizer.
The agency stated that about 8.95 million people between the ages of 60 and 74 years will receive the vaccine in the coming weeks, noting that the AstraZeneca vaccine will be given to people between the ages of 65 and 74 years from May 27, while people between the ages of 60 and 65 will get. Also years old, on the same vaccine as of June 7.
And South Korea announced, earlier, its plan to vaccinate 13 million people against the "Corona" virus until next June and achieve immunity by next November, and the country had already secured sufficient doses of Covid-19 vaccines from many global pharmaceutical companies to vaccinate 99 million people.
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