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United States, ahead of the Christmas holiday, the number of airport passengers reached the highest level since the Corona 19 crisis.
Considering the number of car travellers, there are concerns that the number of confirmed cases will continue to increase until early next year, although they are getting the vaccine.
In New York, correspondent Kim Jong-won reports.
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Spray disinfectant in the air, and wipe the touch screen frequently in contact with people.
While U.S. quarantine authorities recommend staying at home this Christmas holiday, travelers looking for families flocked to the airport.
[Airplane users: My parents are getting older, so I want to be with my parents on Christmas.]
[Airplane users: I travel every year at this time of year.
I am returning to New York to see my family in New York, but I don't think there is yet another mode of transportation as easy as an airplane.
Half of the planes were empty this year.] The
US Transportation Security Administration announced on the 23rd that 1.2 million travelers visited the airport a day.
This is the highest number of daily airport passengers since the coronavirus outbreak began earlier this year.
From the 18th, a week before Christmas, about 1 million people have traveled by air every day, and more than 6.3 million people have traveled by air so far.
As the number of passengers by car is also found to be 85 million, there are concerns that the corona confirmed early next year will be felt once again.
[Pouch / Director of the National Medical Center Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research Center: Looking at what is happening now, I am worried that the number of confirmed cases will increase once more in a difficult situation that we are already experiencing.]
The general public vaccination of the vaccine has not started yet. Under the circumstances, as the number of travelers at the end of the year increases significantly, an analysis is emerging that the cumulative corona death toll will reach 420,000 by January next year.