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reason we can change the direction of quarantine to a step-by-step recovery of daily life is because the vaccination completion rate has surpassed 70% thanks to the active participation of the public, and we are crossing the first gate of collective quarantine. The average daily number of corona patients has been decreasing for three consecutive weeks. Today (25th) is expected to be around 1,200. However, it is somewhat burdensome that the daily death toll from Corona is over 20.
Correspondent Kim Ki-tae.
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the process of tracking and managing contacts at Dongdaemun Market in Jongno-gu, Seoul, where the group infection occurred, 29 additional confirmed cases were confirmed.
Since the first confirmed case on the 6th, the spread has continued for more than two weeks, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 199.
29 people were confirmed at a nursing facility in Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, and 20 people were also confirmed at a daycare center in Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do.
Although such large and small cluster infections are occurring one after another, the total number of confirmed cases is steadily decreasing.
The average number of confirmed cases per day for the past week was 1,357, which has continued to decrease for three consecutive weeks, recovering the initial level of the fourth epidemic.
The quarantine authorities analyzed the recent decline as the effect of the vaccine effect, which exceeded 70% of the vaccination completion rate, and is doing everything possible to expand the vaccination rate.
[Jeon Hae-cheol/Minister of Public Administration and Security: Considering the stable vaccination trend, the vaccination completion rate is expected to reach 75% by the end of October.] The
government will continue to vaccinate children, adolescents, and pregnant women without any setbacks, and will increase the vaccination completion rate by next month. We plan to raise it to 80%.
The so-called 'Booster Shot', a booster vaccination for the elderly and high-risk groups, is starting today for those over 75 years of age and over 60 years of age.