<Anchor> The
number of new corona19 confirmed cases is 463, recording the mid-400 range for the third day.
Prime Minister Chung Sye-gyun said there was no reason to stop vaccination against AstraZeneca and ordered the quarantine authorities to quickly clear up their position on the controversy.
Reporter Jang Se-man's report.
<Reporter> The number of
new corona19 confirmed cases was added yesterday (18th), 463 people, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases amounted to 97,000.
Of the 441 domestic patients excluding 22 foreign patients, 320 in the metropolitan area and 121 in the non-metropolitan area.
Two patients infected with Corona 19 have died, and 1,690 people have died so far.
Among the major infection cases, a total of 199 cases have been confirmed so far, with a series of confirmed cases, mainly visitors and workers, related to a bathhouse in Jinju City, Gyeongsangnam-do.
The number of confirmed cases has increased to 58 at entertainment facilities in Geoje City.
In Sokcho, Gangwon-do, more than 30 confirmed cases were confirmed in two days, mainly in gymnastics centers and daycare centers.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday that 17,000 people received the Corona 19 vaccine a day, and the cumulative number of inoculations was 659,000.
Regarding the controversy about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Prime Minister Chung Sye-gyun said, "Considering the results of international organization verification and adverse reaction cases confirmed so far, we believe that there is no reason to stop the domestic AstraZeneca vaccination."
Prime Minister Chung today sent an emergency directive to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, reaffirming the government's policy, and ordering the quarantine authorities to quickly clear their position on the safety controversy over the AstraZeneca vaccine.