<Anchor> As
the threat of Corona intensifies, the government announced a four-week quarantine measure yesterday (29th). However, if you look at the contents, there are no remarkable measures other than the home treatment you heard earlier and the increase in additional vaccinations. The government has no choice but to worry about the damage to the self-employed, but experts say that stronger measures are still needed.
Next is reporter Kim Yong-tae.
<Reporter> The
government has repeatedly emphasized the need for additional vaccinations, saying that strengthening social distancing is difficult today.
[Kim Bu-gyeom / Prime Minister: We cannot turn back our daily recovery. As the
national risk of COVID-19 rises to the highest level this week, plans to limit the number of private gatherings again in the metropolitan area or expand the application of the quarantine pass to restaurants and cafes were discussed, but all have been postponed.
The same goes for the youth quarantine pass.
[Yoo Eun-hye/Deputy Prime Minister of Education (Yesterday): We decided to review whether the quarantine pass is applied to major facilities used by youth such as karaoke rooms, PC rooms, and private institutes.] The
result of hesitating in quarantine due to the controversy over forced vaccination and damage to the self-employed is.
[Karaoke operation: After the entrance exam is over, the customers here should be full right now, even a few years ago. It was empty. I can't come. (If the distance is strengthened), we can't do business. I have to fold it.]
However, the point that the spread of the virus cannot be stopped by booster vaccination alone continues to be pointed out.
In particular, it is a time of many year-end gatherings, and considering Omicron, it is urgent to keep distance.
[Chun US / two shepherds Hospital Respiratory Medicine Professor government if from public institutions, such as refraining from meetings and private personnel restrictions, I think you must increase this to be included public awareness]
government next year to meet with loved ones However, it seems that more effective measures are needed given the increasing number of patients and empty beds.
(Video editing: Choi Eun-jin, CG: Park Dong-soo, VJ: Shin So-young)