[Interview] Prime Minister Kim "The peak is in early March...the whole nation does not review the 4th vaccination"

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As we saw earlier, some of the quarantine guidelines will be changed from tomorrow (19th) amid the rapid increase in the number of corona patients.

Let's talk about this with Prime Minister Kim Bu-gyeom from now on.

[Kim Bu-gyeom/Prime Minister: It doesn't matter what we predict.

There is now a model that predicts repairs by inserting various conditions, including various research institutes and even an overseas institution.

If you look there, these people probably peak around early March.

At that time, some people say that it will be around 170,000 when it reaches its peak.]

[Kim Bu-gyeom/Prime Minister: After all, those who value quarantine now, especially so-called experts, at this time when the peak is unknown, what will they do if the relaxation of distance gives the wrong signal? It will increase, and in that respect, it was argued that such autographs should not be given now.

But for us, through strengthening social distancing for 9 weeks, in fact, small business owners and self-employed people say that they are almost on the verge of starvation.

It's so desperate that I can't keep ignoring them.

So, somewhere in the meantime, what we can give them to some extent this time is that we have extended our business hours by one hour now.]

[Kim Bu-gyeom / Prime Minister: There are many people who claim that too.

However, from what we have seen so far, if we follow the process all the time, the scientific predictions made by experts are unfortunately correct.

But we can't just ignore their opinions and go the way we want.

However, despite this, they really only have to consider quarantine, but from our government's point of view, there is also quarantine, but we cannot but ignore the livelihoods of 6 million or 7 million small business owners, self-employed people and their workers.

So there was a need for proper tension and adjustment.]

[Kim Bu-gyeom / Prime Minister: Rather than being conscious of it, in the midst of the presidential election, we are adjusting the distance again, but if we do it for two weeks, wouldn't there be confusion from that?

So, rather than considering the presidential election in order to not be affected by any kind of presidential election, we decided it to be three weeks in order not to burden the presidential election schedule.]

[Kim Bu-gyeom/Prime Minister: Several tens of trillions cannot be prepared at once as demanded by the political circles, so perhaps the Speaker of the National Assembly is aware of various circumstances, so perhaps through a meeting of representatives of the opposition parties on Monday, compromise in the National Assembly to some appropriate degree, Also, they asked the government for a position, and at the same time they passed the supplementary budget bill as soon as possible to help small business owners and the self-employed, and they gave such opinions.]

[Kim Bu-gyeom / Prime Minister: There is no plan to review it at all now.

If we continue to receive various vaccines, there is an opinion that our body responds rather than that these parts do not help resistance to other diseases or these parts in the future, so that part is not being considered at all now.

Rather, we are watching how other countries deal with it now.

But now, there are people who have lost a lot of resistance in nursing homes and nursing homes, such as nursing homes.

In order to protect them first, I decided to do this 4th vaccination.]