Started in Italy, France, etc… “Protect the medical system by increasing the vaccination rate”
Confirmation surge due to immune avoidance mutation… The inoculation rate is still 70-80% stagnant
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(Geneva = Yonhap News) Correspondent Ahn Hee = As the risk of a re-infection of COVID-19 has increased due to the spread of the mutated virus, each member state of the European Union (EU) lowered the age for vaccine booster shots to 60 years or older are encouraging
The European Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which oversee the EU’s quarantine and health policies, recommended a second dose of the COVID-19 booster shot for adults aged 60 and over on the 11th (local time).
It is said that the fourth vaccination should be given to adults who have received the booster shot once in addition to the existing first and second vaccinations. In April, the EU designated the target age for the second booster shot as 80 years old or older and made a decision to recommend vaccination, but this time, the lower age limit was lowered to 60 years old.
EU member states accepted the recommendation and started to increase vaccination rates.
The Italian Ministry of Health announced on the 12th that it is launching a campaign to administer a second booster shot to all adults aged 60 and over.
France has announced that it will lower the age for the second booster shot before an official EU recommendation is issued. In April, French health authorities announced that they would start the vaccination service for those aged 60 and over while continuing the second booster shot for those over the age of 80.
The reason that European countries are starting the second booster shot is interpreted as taking into account the situation where the possibility of a resurgence is increasing as the COVID-19 mutant virus, which has strong immune evasion and spreads quickly, has established itself as the dominant species.
Omicron sub-mutation BA.5, which is leading the global COVID-19 resurgence, has high immune evasion, so vaccination alone cannot easily prevent infection, but the general evaluation of the medical community is that it is effective in reducing severe patients.
Countries that need to manage quarantine within a range that medical facilities can handle need to encourage vaccination at a time when there are signs of a surge in the number of confirmed cases.
In fact, in the case of Italy, the average number of new confirmed cases per week was 25,516 as of the 11th of last month, but it surpassed 100,000 this month and recorded 102,501 as of the same day.
During the same period, the average number of new confirmed cases per week in France jumped from 17,496 to 128,893.
However, it is unclear whether the inoculation rate will rise as expected. In European countries, where 70-80% of the population has already completed the first and second vaccinations, the vaccination rate is hardly stagnant.
In Italy, the vaccination completion rate has stayed at 85% since last May, and in France, the vaccination completion rate has not risen from 78.5 to 78.6% since the beginning of last month.
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