The ruling party has set out to enact a Special Act to obligate the nation to compensate for damages caused by COVID-19 vaccinations.

The Special Act was proposed because the compensation for damages caused by COVID-19 vaccinations currently implemented by the government is too passive in recognizing the causal relationship between vaccination and its side effects.

To address this, the new law strengthened the government’s duty of post-vaccination management by obliging the Commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency to bear the burden of proof when a dispute related to side effects, such as diseases caused by vaccination, arises.

On the 14th, People Po