Daejeon Confirms 9,247 Priority COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients Including Nursing Hospitals and Facilities

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City has finalized the vaccination targets for the first day of COVID-19 vaccine administration. The targets are not the initially planned hospital workers treating COVID-19 patients, but rather workers and residents under the age of 65 at nursing hospitals and nursing facilities.

On the 22nd, the city announced that out of 9,873 priority COVID-19 vaccine recipients, 9,247 (93.7%) agreed to receive the vaccine on the 26th. This means the priority vaccination targets for the day have been confirmed.

By facility, 5,611 out of 6,076 (92.3%) nursing hospital workers and 3,636 out of 3,797 (95.8%) nursing facility workers agreed to be vaccinated on the 26th.

Accordingly, the city plans to have nursing hospitals with resident medical staff administer the vaccines themselves, while nursing facilities will have contracted medical staff or visiting teams from the local health center conduct the vaccinations on site.

By the 24th, the city will conduct on-site inspections at hospitals and clinics to check for digital thermometers, emergency medicines, vaccine-specific refrigerators, vaccination preparation and post-vaccination observation spaces, and emergency response systems, and will finalize consignment contracts.

In particular, to prepare for any adverse reactions that may occur after vaccination, each institution will establish an emergency response system and seek cooperation from the nearest general hospital to the vaccination site to ensure appropriate responses according to the situation.

Jung Hae-gyo, Director of the City’s Health and Welfare Bureau, stated, “We will make every effort to ensure that there are no disruptions in the vaccination process according to the government’s plan through thorough prior preparations.”

He also said, “Until herd immunity is formed through the second vaccination, the risk of COVID-19 remains,” and urged citizens to comply with basic quarantine rules such as wearing masks and washing hands.

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