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additional COVID-19 cases has fallen to 300 in six days. As vaccinations accelerate, the average daily number of confirmed cases has also been decreasing for the past two weeks in a row. The quarantine authorities plan to focus on the second vaccination for the next month as the first vaccination for the elderly has been completed.



First of all, this is reporter Park Soo-jin.



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is a general hospital in Seoul.



Health care workers in their 20s, medical students, nursing students, etc. are receiving moderna vaccines.



Moderna vaccines have also started in earnest.



[Kim Jun-seong / Catholic University of Nursing 3rd year (23 years old): Hospitals are a bit of a high-risk area. Semester 2 lab, I think I can get comfortable.



[Ms. Yoon Seo / Seoul St. Mary's Hospital pathologist (24 years old): (vaccine) will perform the work forward to as much as inoculation medical harder -



until now the primary About 15 million people, 30% of the total population, have been vaccinated.



In the first half of the year, 8 out of 10 people over the age of 60, who are the target of priority vaccination, finished the first vaccination.



200,000 people over the age of 60 who have not received the AstraZeneca vaccine will receive their vaccine from the 5th of the next month by re-booking from the 23rd.



[Jeong Eun-kyung/Director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: We apologize for the inconvenience of adjusting the vaccination schedule, and please make a reservation through the 1339 call center or website this week from June 23 to receive the vaccination.]



The quarantine authorities plan to focus on the second vaccination from this week to the middle of next month.



The target audience for the second vaccination scheduled for July is 1.09 million people, including residents of nursing hospitals and facilities, and workers.



On the other hand, a causal relationship with the vaccination was recognized for a man in his 30s who died of thrombocytopenic thrombosis after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.



This is the first death from a vaccine side effect recognized by the quarantine authorities since vaccination began.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Kim Jong-mi, CG: Ryu Sang-soo)