Gyeongbuk Province Reports 221 New Cases of 'Adverse Reactions' to AZ Vaccine in One Day... All Mild

KDCA Launches Real-Time 'Reporting System' from 8th
As of Midnight on 9th, 240 Cumulative Reports in Gyeongbuk Region
Classified as 1 Death, 1 Shock, 1 Other, and 237 Mild Cases

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] In Gyeongbuk Province, AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine inoculation for the first responders to 'COVID-19' began on the 7th, and on the 8th alone, 221 additional adverse reaction reports were filed.

According to Gyeongbuk Province on the 9th, as of midnight that day, the number of reported adverse reactions to the AZ vaccine increased by 221 from the previous day, totaling 240 cases. All 221 reporters on that day experienced mild symptoms (fever, headache, dizziness, nausea).

The sharp increase in reports is explained by Gyeongbuk Province as due to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) activating the adverse reaction reporting system through the 'Vaccination Helper' website starting on the 8th.

Among the cumulative reports in the Gyeongbuk area, there was one death case and one case of severe systemic allergic reaction, anaphylaxis. Another case was classified as 'other' rather than mild. The KDCA classifies suspected adverse reaction reports without immediately confirmed causality as 'other.'

In Gyeongbuk, on the 6th, a woman in her 50s hospitalized in a nursing hospital in Pohang died four days after vaccination, and on the 3rd, a woman in her 50s in Cheongdo showed symptoms of severe systemic allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, within 10 minutes of vaccination.

Regarding the deceased, the KDCA judged that the correlation is unlikely as she was a patient with underlying conditions such as cerebral hemorrhage and decubitus ulcers, and about 90 hours had passed since vaccination.

Meanwhile, in the Gyeongbuk area, 3,559 people, including 2,420 from hospital-level medical institutions, received the AZ vaccine on the 8th alone, increasing the cumulative number of vaccinated people to 22,247 as of midnight on the 9th. This corresponds to a vaccination rate of 53.5% of the 41,586 first-dose AZ vaccine target population in the Gyeongbuk area.

The vaccination plan target population in the Gyeongbuk area on the 9th includes 639 people in nursing hospitals, 716 in nursing facilities, 1,071 first responders, and 1,536 in hospital-level medical institutions, totaling 4,057 people.

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