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There are not many safe zones in the 4th COVID-19 pandemic. There are still many patients in the metropolitan area, and the proportion in non-metropolitan areas is approaching 40%. In Busan, between the afternoon of the 6th and this morning, more than 170 people were confirmed, and in particular, it was confirmed that 34 people who had completed the second vaccination at a nursing hospital were infected.
This is KNN reporter Joo Woo-jin.
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Elderly inpatients are confirmed with COVID-19 and transferred to a treatment hospital.
One worker at this nursing hospital was confirmed to be confirmed, and all workers and 270 inpatients were tested, and 37 additional confirmed patients were found.
All were people who worked or were hospitalized in the same ward as the first confirmed patient.
However, a whopping 34 of the 38 cumulative confirmed cases were confirmed to have been infected even though they had completed the second vaccination.
Breakthrough infection, and that happened in groups.
Thirty-four confirmed cases of breakthrough infection were confirmed to have completed the second vaccination between May and June.
There are studies that show that antibodies begin to decrease after 6 weeks, or a month, after the second dose, but this is the first time that so many breakthrough infections have occurred at once.
Most of the vaccines they received were the AstraZeneca vaccine.
[Ahn Byeong-seon / Busan City Citizen Health Bureau: These situations occurred today, so we plan to closely examine the causes of the group outbreak and discuss additional measures.]
Earlier, at a nursing hospital and nursing facility in Seoul at the end of last month, 11 people who completed the second vaccination Breakthrough infections are continuing across the country.
As more than 4 months have passed since the first vaccination, there are concerns that the effectiveness of the vaccine may have decreased, so measures such as additional vaccination are urgent.
(Video coverage: Park Young-jun, CG: KNN Choi Hee-yeon)