Chinanews, February 16, According to Korea Broadcasting International (KBS), the first confirmed case of new crown in the South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters is the first confirmed case of the South Korean Ministry of Defense since November 2020.
On the other hand, the South Korean government has decided to extend the special warning for travel safety issued globally for another month.
According to reports, according to relevant information from the South Korean military on the 16th, a military officer of the Joint Staff Headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Yongshan District, Seoul, was diagnosed with the new crown virus.
At present, the Ministry of National Defense is conducting epidemiological investigations on the confirmed cases.
On the morning of the 16th local time, the Ministry of National Defense set up temporary detection points to test contacts for the new coronavirus.
Data map: The picture shows people waiting for testing outside the temporary screening station near the subway station of Gangnam Samseong Station in Seoul.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zeng Nai
According to the report, this is the first confirmed case of the Ministry of National Defense after a mass infection in the National Welfare Group, a unit directly under the Ministry of National Defense, in November 2020.
Previously, the South Korean and US military agreed to hold a joint command post exercise (CPX) in the second week of March, and are currently negotiating on the specific schedule and methods.
The emergence of confirmed cases of the new crown in the South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters will cause concern about the impact of the South Korean-US joint military exercise.
According to reports, the Korea-U.S. joint exercise will be divided into two parts, and it is expected to last for a total of 9 days. Same as previous years, the exercise will be conducted by computer simulation.
On the other hand, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the special warning for travel safety of South Korean citizens issued for all countries and regions in the world will be extended for another month until March 17.
The South Korean government has been extending the warning period since it first issued a special warning for global travel safety on March 23, 2020.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea stated that in view of the WHO's announcement that the global epidemic has continued to spread after the new crown epidemic, the warning period has been extended again. At the same time, Korean citizens should also avoid overseas travel in consideration of the domestic epidemic prevention work in South Korea.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea called on people to cancel or postpone their overseas travel during this period and remind Korean citizens stranded overseas to fully abide by the epidemic prevention regulations.
South Korea notified on the 16th that as of 0:00 local time, South Korea had newly confirmed cases of 457, with a total of 84,325 confirmed cases; 7 new deaths, with a total of 1534 deaths.
When talking about the new crown vaccine, South Korean Prime Minister Ding Shijun said that the government has signed a new contract to purchase 23 million new crown vaccines, plus the 56 million previously confirmed purchases of vaccines, which guarantee a total of 79 million new crown vaccines.