China News Service, March 14th. According to comprehensive Korean media reports, South Korea's Central Epidemic Prevention and Countermeasures Headquarters reported on the 14th that as of 0:00 that day, South Korea added 309,790 new confirmed cases of new crown compared with 0:00 the previous day, with a total of 6,866,222 confirmed cases.

  According to reports, the number of confirmed cases in South Korea in a single day exceeded 300,000 for three consecutive days.

The government predicts that the Omekron epidemic will peak this week, when the daily average of confirmed cases will reach 295,000 to 372,000, and severe cases will remain at around 2,000.

  The second head of South Korea's Central Disaster Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, Jeon Hae-cheol, said on the 14th that the government will vaccinate children between the ages of 5 and 11 from the new crown from the end of March.

Vaccine appointments and vaccinations will start on the 24th and 31st respectively.

  Quan Haiche said that the government made the above decision considering that the safety and efficacy of the vaccine have been verified in other countries that vaccinate children aged 5 to 11 years, and that people under the age of 11 accounted for more than 15% of the total confirmed cases.

  He said that the booster vaccination work for teenagers aged 12 to 17 will start immediately to prevent the cluster epidemic in schools from affecting the teaching plans of schools at all levels.

  It was previously reported that from the start of the new semester on March 2 to the 8th, a total of 174,603 elementary school, junior high and high school students in South Korea were diagnosed with the new crown virus, and an average of 29,100 students were diagnosed with the new crown virus every day.