<Anchor> As of
9 pm yesterday (9th), there were 1,465 new confirmed cases of Corona 19, and the number of confirmed cases to be announced today is expected to be around 1,700. It has slightly decreased below 2,000, but we cannot be vigilant with the Hangeul Day holiday that continues until tomorrow. The number of completed vaccinations has exceeded 30 million.
Reporter Jeon Yeon-nam.
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Agricultural products are scattered here and there in front of Mapo-gu Office in Seoul.
Merchants protested when the ward office ordered an indefinite closure of the Mapo Agricultural and Fisheries Market, where 86 cumulative confirmed cases had occurred since the 25th of last month.
We had already stopped our business for three days and expected normal business, but suddenly a notice of closure was made the evening before and we were unable to sell the agricultural products we ordered.
[Kim Young-jin / Vice Chairman of Mapo Agricultural and Fishery Market Merchants Association: If you skip a day (agricultural and fishery products), it will fade and fade… I can't sell clean fresh food.] At
a hospital in Nowon-gu, Seoul, 28 people were confirmed in three days.
Among the confirmed cases in Korea, the metropolitan area accounts for 76%.
The number of people who completed the vaccination recorded about 33.2 million people.
This is 59.1% of the total population.
Pre-booking rates for 16-17 year-olds exceeded 44% in just four days.
For pregnant women, reservations started at 8 pm the night before and 944 people completed their reservations.
Pregnant women can make an appointment in advance without a deadline.
In addition, the U.S. government plans to require foreign entrants from next month not only the current PCR test negative confirmation, but also a certificate of completion of vaccination. It was reported that all vaccines approved by the World Health Organization, including Zeneca, would be recognized.