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whole world now wants the day to come as soon as possible, where you can enjoy this ordinary life like you just saw.

The number of cumulative corona19 cases in the global village is now close to 84 million.

From now on, we will connect our correspondents in turn to see if humans who have realized the fear of the virus again can successfully counterattack with vaccines in the new year.

Let’s go to the US first.



Washington Correspondent Kim Yoon-soo, New President Biden will soon be inaugurated in the United States. What will happen to American society?



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Now, the US is running a so-called'super-high-speed operation' that oversees vaccine development, distribution, and vaccination.



However, unlike development and distribution, vaccination is not achieving zero speed due to problems such as lack of manpower and facilities.



Initially, the plan was to complete the vaccination of 20 million people by the end of last year, but only about one eighth of the target was achieved.



Therefore, in order to get the vaccine to more people, we are considering a plan to release the vaccine for the second vaccination, which was reserved as a reserve, and to give the first vaccination to others.



After taking office on the 20th, Biden-elect also came up with a plan to receive 1 million vaccinations a day and 100 million people 100 days after taking office.



My goal is to gradually return to normal life from around May and build group immunity by the end of the fall or year.



In addition to Colorado and California, there is a growing sense of anxiety as cases of variant virus infection have been reported one after another in Florida.



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This time, we will connect Beijing, China after the US.

Coronavirus Coronavirus worries have not completely disappeared, correspondent Song Wook, China, but what is the situation now?



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In Wuhan, China, where the first outbreak of Corona 19 a year ago, countless people wearing masks poured into the streets last night to celebrate the New Year.



This is a scene that shows that China has some success in controlling the corona.



However, the number of sporadic infections, although small in recent years in Beijing and Liaoning provinces, has been followed, and the Chinese New Year's Lunar New Year movement is also ahead, so the authorities are tense.



China also finds the fundamental solution in vaccines, and yesterday it officially approved a vaccine from Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinofarm.



The preventive effect is said to be 79%, which is slightly lower than the US and European vaccines.



We have already started vaccinations in high-risk positions, but we plan to inoculate 50 million people before Lunar New Year holidays.



The public is then vaccinated. In China, with a population of 1.4 billion, it will take a while, as at least 700 to 800 million people must be vaccinated to create a collective immune barrier.



China says that there will be no more large-scale corona re-proliferation, and it appears to be paying attention to technology and economic independence amid the US-China conflict.



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Following the US and China, we will go to Tokyo, Japan for the last time.

Correspondent Yoo Seong-jae, Japan postponed the Olympics last year because of the corona, how is it?

Will it be possible this summer?



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On July 23rd, the opening day of the Tokyo Olympics is now approaching on the 203th, and Japan's Prime Minister Suga announced that he will successfully host the Olympics today as a symbol of world unity.



However, Corona 19 is still a big stumbling block.



Japan is now in the middle of a tertiary epidemic that is stronger than the first and second, and concerns about the spread of the mutant virus are also growing.



There are criticisms that an emergency should be declared, but the Japanese government is taking only passive measures, such as blocking only new entry of foreigners until the end of this month.



The US Pfizer vaccine, which was reviewed in Japan last month, is expected to be approved as soon as possible next month. is.