3,674,682 People Received the First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine... Advance Reservations for Ages 65-69 Tomorrow

Jung Eun-kyung Urges Parents to Actively Ensure Vaccinations for Their Children

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[Asia Economy Reporter Seo So-jeong] From this week, COVID-19 vaccination reservations for those aged 65 to 69 will begin.

According to the COVID-19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team on the 9th, although the age group over 60 accounts for about 27% of all patients, they account for more than 95% of deaths, indicating a high fatality rate. On the other hand, vaccination has shown about 87% effectiveness in preventing infection even after the first dose.

Jung Eun-kyung, head of the promotion team, said the day before, "Vaccination is not optional but essential for the elderly who have a relatively high mortality rate," and urged, "On this Parents' Day, children should actively take care of making vaccination reservations for the elderly."

The promotion team will accept advance vaccination reservations for seniors aged 65 to 69 (born 1952?1956) from the 10th of this month until the 3rd of next month. Actual vaccinations will begin on the 27th.

From the 13th, advance reservations for those aged 60 to 64 (born 1957?1961) will start. Actual vaccinations will begin on the 7th of next month.

The vaccination deadline for those aged 60 to 74 is the 19th of next month.

You can select your preferred vaccination date and location through the online reservation website (ncvr.kdca.go.kr) or the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency's infectious disease call center (☎1339).

Once the reservation is completed, a text message containing information such as the reservation date and time, vaccination institution, and vaccine type will be sent to your mobile phone within one hour.

Vaccination deadline for ages 60?74 is next month 19th... Children can make reservations on behalf of parents

On the afternoon of the 6th, employees at the 'Yeongdeungpo 1339 Call Center' in Seoul are handling phone reservations for COVID-19 vaccinations for the elderly. Photo by Jinhyung Kang aymsdream@

Considering that the vaccination target group is elderly, children can make reservations on behalf of their parents.

If you wish to cancel, you can do so online or via the call center (1339, local government) up to two days before the vaccination. If you are unwell on the day before or the day of vaccination, you can contact the scheduled vaccination institution to reschedule to a day when your health condition is better.

For seniors aged 70 to 74 (born 1947?1951), whose advance reservations have been ongoing since the 6th, 498,117 people (23.4%) out of the total 2,129,788 eligible individuals applied for vaccination within two days until the 7th.

Vaccination reservations for patients with chronic severe respiratory diseases will continue until the 3rd of next month.

Over two days, the 6th and 7th, 1,566 people (20.1%) out of 7,776 chronic severe respiratory disease patients applied for advance vaccination reservations.

The vaccination period is from the 27th of this month to the 19th of next month, and they will receive the AstraZeneca vaccine at designated medical institutions nationwide.

Advance reservations for kindergarten, daycare, and elementary school grades 1 and 2 teachers and childcare workers will start from the 13th. Vaccinations will be from the 7th to the 19th of next month. Those under 30 years old are excluded from vaccination due to concerns about rare thrombosis.

Although the vaccination target group is expanding, the remaining supply of AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines is insufficient, so the number of new first-dose recipients is not large.

On the 30th of last month, the daily number of vaccinations reached 259,018, but as of midnight on the 9th, the number of new first-dose recipients was only 11,931.

To achieve the government's goal of vaccinating 13 million people in the first half of the year, about 9,325,318 people, excluding the 3,674,682 already vaccinated, must receive vaccinations in the remaining approximately 50 days.

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