China News Agency, Seoul, July 14 (Reporter Liu Xu) South Korea’s Central Anti-epidemic Countermeasures Headquarters reported on the 14th local time that there were 1,615 newly confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in South Korea from the previous day, and a total of 171,911 cases were confirmed.
The number of new cases in a single day is the highest since the first confirmed case in South Korea on January 20 last year.
Statistics show that there are nearly 400 new community infection cases in South Korea’s non-capital area, and the fourth wave of pandemics is spreading across the country.
In view of this, the 10 non-capital regions except Sejong City, Jeollabuk-do, Jeollanam-do, and Gyeongsangbuk-do will upgrade their response to the second level of epidemic prevention from the 15th.
Prior to this, the metropolitan area has officially launched the fourth level of the highest level of epidemic prevention response on the 12th of this month for a period of two weeks.
On July 12, 2021, local time, Seoul, South Korea. Starting from the same day, the Korean metropolitan area implemented the fourth level of the highest epidemic prevention response level. The streets of Myeongdong in Seoul are sluggish and deserted with few customers.
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Lee Ki-il, the first controller of the South Korean Central Disaster Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, said on the 14th that the effects of the highest-level epidemic response measures in the metropolitan area will appear at least one week later, and it is predicted that the number of new confirmed cases in a single day will continue to increase in the next week.
He said that the epidemic prevention department will pay close attention to the epidemic situation early next week, meet with relevant departments, the life epidemic prevention committee and experts, and decide on the epidemic prevention response level measures to be implemented from the 26th.
Li Jiri also said that a total of 10 million doses of the new crown vaccine will arrive this month in batches as planned, and the specific number of related vaccines is expected to be announced this weekend.
South Korea’s new crown vaccination promotion team stated on the same day that it will open an appointment service for people aged 55 to 59 who have not made an appointment for vaccination from 20: 00 on the 14th to 18:00 on the 24th.
It is reported that this group of people was originally scheduled to make an appointment from the 12th to the 17th of this month, but the appointment service was suspended 15 hours and 30 minutes after the start of the 12th due to the premature exhaustion of the Modena vaccine stock.
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