China News Service, March 25. According to Korean media reports, South Korea’s Central Anti-epidemic Countermeasures Headquarters announced on the 25th that as of 0:00 that day, the total number of confirmed cases of new crown in South Korea exceeded 100,000.
This is 430 days after the first confirmed case appeared in China on January 20, 2020.
Data map: On March 4, local time, the staff in Incheon Airport, South Korea, wore protective clothing.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zeng Nai
South Korea has experienced the first wave of pandemics from February to March of 2020 at the "Sincheonji" churches in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province, and the second wave of pandemics from the Gwanghwamun assembly in Seoul in August. The third wave of pandemics began in August. The outbreak occurred in mid-November of the same year and has continued to this day.
As of 0:00 on March 25, local time, South Korea had 430 newly confirmed cases compared with the previous day, and more than 400 cases were confirmed in two consecutive days.
Recently, there have been a series of collective infection incidents that began in daily spaces such as various gatherings of relatives and friends, public gathering facilities, and workplaces. More than 400 new cases in a single day have become the norm.
Based on the current trend of the epidemic, the government will announce on the 26th the epidemic response level and epidemic prevention measures applicable from next week.
South Korea began vaccination on February 26, and has reported a total of more than 10,000 suspected abnormal reactions, accounting for 1.36% of the cumulative number of vaccinated people (735,815 people) in the country.
According to the abnormal reaction report rate of each vaccine, AstraZeneca vaccine accounted for 1.45%, and Pfizer vaccine accounted for 0.4%.