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Today (31st), the Ministry of Justice announces an adjustment plan to keep the distance. It is known that the current distance has been extended by two more weeks and the application of the youth quarantine pass is set to March next year, delaying the original plan by a month. 



Reporter Kim Kyung-hee reports.



<Reporter> The number of



new COVID-19 cases was 5,37, which was around 5,000 for two days in a row.



This is a marked decrease compared to last Wednesday and Thursday, when the number of 7,000 and 6,000 people was recorded.



There was no corona patient waiting for more than a day because there were no hospital beds, and there was not a single person for two days in a row.



The problem is that the number of patients with severe cases of gastritis is seldom decreasing.



1,145, the second-highest number in history, recording a record of 1,000 people for ten days in a row.



[Sohn Young-rae/Chief of Social Strategy Team (December 29): (December 29): (The number of severe cases) is a very important indicator in terms of increasing the actual damage caused by COVID-19, and these parts must be reliably reversed. (It can be assessed)]



Considering that it takes longer for a decrease in confirmed cases to lead to a decrease in patients with severe cases, it is likely that the adjustment plan to be announced today will remain current for two weeks.



However, it is interesting to see whether fine adjustments will be made by industry.



The youth quarantine pass is a policy that will be pushed forward despite opposition from parents and academies.



[Sohn Young-rae/Chief of Social Strategy Team at the Central Accident Remediation Headquarters (Yesterday): Everyone agrees to the basic principle of applying the quarantine pass for teenagers because the academy is a facility that is vulnerable to group infection and has a high degree of risk…

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However, due to complaints about time constraints, the application date, which was announced on February 1 of next year, is expected to be delayed by one month to the beginning of March, when the new semester begins.



So far, the primary vaccination rate for 12 to 15-year-olds has reached 66.7%, and the completion rate of the second vaccination is 38%.