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Today (4th), the number of new corona cases is expected to be around 2,500. As mass infections are increasing in places where vaccinations were first performed, such as nursing homes, the government has decided to advance the schedule of booster vaccinations for these facilities by four weeks.



Correspondent Park Chan-geun.



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is a nursing hospital in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul.



Since one employee was first confirmed on the 28th of last month, 13 people have been infected with Corona 19.



Since last August, there have been 160 collective infections and 2,424 confirmed cases in nursing hospitals, nursing facilities, and mental hospitals.



The high number of breakthrough infections is the most worrisome.



[Sohn Young-rae/Chairman of Social Strategy Team, Central Accident Remediation Headquarters: These are vulnerable facilities that have been vaccinated first since the end of February this year, and the period of weakening immunity is coming.]



These facilities are more dangerous because there are many elderly people over 60 in these facilities

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In fact, if you look at the percentage of confirmed cases by age group over the past five weeks, even though the age group with the highest vaccination completion rate, those in their 60s and over are steadily increasing.



For this reason, the quarantine authorities decided to give the so-called booster shot, or booster shot, four weeks ahead of the so-called booster shot, and vaccinate only five months after the completion of the inoculation date for workers and residents of this infection-prone facility.



The quarantine authorities predicted that the impact of Halloween, which had a large crowd of people, would appear next week, and judged that the increase in the number of confirmed cases would be inevitable for the time being.



So, starting today, a 'government joint special inspection team' will be formed for two weeks to intensively crack down on violations of regulations in entertainment facilities, restaurants, cafes, and facilities that apply quarantine passes.



There are currently 378 severe cases and 18 deaths in a single day, but quarantine authorities said the current medical response system is stable.