<Anchor> The
number of new confirmed cases per day is also recording a record high in countries around the world, including the UK and Japan.
Reporter Park Ha-jung will deliver this news.
<Reporter> In
the UK, where the mutant virus is spreading, the number of new confirmed cases per day of Corona 19 on the last day of 2020 reached 55,000.
The number increased by nearly 3,000 from the record high two days ago, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeded 2.48 million.
The death toll also increased by 964.
The London Police Department has repeatedly emphasized that outside meetings should be avoided, saying that you should celebrate the New Year in your own home.
The UK government, which gave the world's first urgent use approval for a vaccine developed by Oxford University and multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, also announced plans to increase the number of vaccinations instead of increasing the vaccination interval.
[Boris Johnson/British Prime Minister: Not only did British scientists produce the most effective treatments in the world, but we've seen a lamp of hope lit up in the Oxford laboratory in the last few days.] The
spread is also steep in Japan.
The number of new confirmed cases per day was 4,515, also breaking the record.
The Minister of Economy Regeneration Nishimura, who is in charge of coping with Corona 19, appealed to spend the year-end and New Year holidays only with his family and said, "If the spread of the infection continues as it is, an emergency declaration will come into view." Although it was opened, the local mayor did not immediately comment on the declaration of an emergency that could order refraining from going out or closing the workplace.