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As you can see, as the rate of breakthrough infection continues to rise, the quarantine authorities have put more emphasis on additional vaccinations. In order to increase the vaccination rate, we are considering sending military medical staff and making the quarantine pass valid for 6 months.
Next is reporter Park Soo-jin.
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this nursing hospital in Gyeonggi-do, 96% of the 450 residents and workers, or 430, have completed the booster vaccination.
Additional vaccinations are still in progress at this nursing hospital in Seoul, and about 90% of about 600 people have been vaccinated.
Recently, cluster infections have been concentrated in nursing hospitals and facilities, and patients with severe cases have also appeared one after another.
That is why the government has strongly recommended vaccination for these people by reducing the interval between boosters by two months.
[Metropolitan nursing hospital official: Because of anxiety (hesitating), there was something like that, but I persuaded him. (In the hospital) I need to understand that it is safe and have some things like this.]
Nursing hospitals and facilities planned to complete booster vaccinations as early as today (26th), but as of 00:00 today, it was only 61%.
[Lee Ki-il / Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters 1st Controller: A somewhat difficult place is a nursing facility. Nursing facilities have outpatients, so there is no inoculation staff in fact. We have formed a visiting vaccination team and are doing it now.] The
quarantine authorities received 60 military medical personnel, including medical doctors, and put them into areas and facilities that lack inoculation personnel.
[Kwon Deok-cheol/Minister of Health and Welfare: Additional vaccinations are absolutely necessary for normal recovery.] For
this reason, we are actively reviewing ways to put an expiration date on the quarantine pass.
As the vaccination interval for seniors 50 years and older has been shortened to 4-5 months, it is likely to be 6 months by adding one month to the additional vaccination period based on the maximum of 5 months.
That's shorter than the nine months the European Union is pushing forward.
Whether the target will be limited to adults or all recipients, including adolescents, and specific operational plans are still under discussion.
(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Jo Moo-hwan, CG: Lee Jong-jeong, Park Dong-su)
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