<Anchor> It is



a time to organize the year by meeting people, but this year is also the end of the year when we have to distance ourselves due to the corona virus. Special quarantine measures will be implemented from today (the 6th), and among them, there is a controversy over applying the quarantine pass to teenagers from the beginning of next year.



This means that even when you go to an academy or reading room, you must have a certificate of vaccination or a negative confirmation. Students who are about to take the final exam right now are worried about whether they can get the vaccine, but today's news will focus on this issue.



This is reporter Hyung-woo Jeon.



<Reporter> The



youth quarantine pass is applied from February 1, next year, to those aged 12 to 18.



You must complete the second vaccination or submit a PCR negative test within 48 hours to enter the academy, reading room, or library.



[Lim Yoo-jeong/Parents: (Vaccine) I don't want to get it right, I want to go to a private academy, so I'm in a lot of conflict right now.]



[Kim Seo-hyun / 5th grade elementary school: 6th grade sisters said they got it right, but I won't.]



Youth 2.77 million Among the people, the number of first inoculations has not yet exceeded half, and the completion rate of inoculation is around 31%.



The backlash is growing when the policy to expand the quarantine pass comes out in a situation where there is still anxiety about getting vaccinated for teenagers.



The petition to the Blue House against the quarantine pass, posted by a petitioner who identified himself as a sophomore in high school, received more than 200,000 signatures.



The petitioner wrote that the quarantine pass "infringes the daily life of unvaccinated people" and "it is like forcing vaccinations in the end."



[Ahn Hyo-bin / 3rd grade in high school: (Vaccine) There are side effects, so (the quarantine pass) seems to suppress a lot of individual freedom, so I am not right.]



Parents are advised to complete the vaccination by the end of January at the latest, the third of this month. The first vaccination must be received by the week, but there is a strong resistance that symptoms such as fever will appear after the vaccination because it overlaps with the final exam period.



[Lee Yoo-won / President of the Federation of Private Academy: Some places have (final exam) on the 14th, some start this week, and schools are all different.

It is not possible to get the second vaccination within February 1.] There



are complaints about violating the right to learning, as well as voices of concern, mainly from private academies.



[Bugeum Choi/CEO of Study Cafe/Reading Room Association: There are many students who refuse (vaccine).

Those students are not allowed to enter these industries, so that will have an impact on us.]



As the backlash grows from the first day of the government's special quarantine measures, the controversy surrounding the introduction of the youth quarantine pass is not expected to go away easily.



(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Park Ki-duk)



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