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The government has also decided how to deal with the corona virus next year and its response direction. In the future, we thought that the Omicron mutation would be the dominant species, so we decided to reorganize the distance accordingly.



Reporter Jeong Da-eun will share with you the plan to introduce next year's vaccine.



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From today (30th), it is a rapid confirmation PCR reagent used for infection testing of Omicron.



It has been distributed to 23 health care institutions across the country, and it can detect Omicron infection within 3 hours.



This is to counteract the propagation force of the ohmic mutation, which is three times faster than the delta mutation.



However, from what has been confirmed so far, the severity of the disease is low.



Predicting that Omicron with these characteristics will become the dominant species early next year, the quarantine authorities decided to prepare a new distance.



[Lee Ki-il / Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters 1st Controller: What happens because the infectivity of Omicron is 2-3 times higher? We will prepare a .]



The quarantine pass also takes into consideration the level of infection, severity, and death of unvaccinated persons, but has taken the direction of gradual relief. [Sohn Young-rae/Chairman of Social Strategy Team at Central Accident Resolving Headquarters: If the

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of unvaccinated persons is significantly lowered, the purpose is to phase out facilities with a low risk of infection.]



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Modular beds, which are temporary beds with negative pressure facilities, are also scheduled to be installed in the first half of the year with 96 beds.



Next year, we plan to bring in 90 million doses of vaccines along with 1 million doses of treatment.



Pfizer 60 million servings, Moderna 20 million servings, and SK Bioscience 10 million servings in phase 3 clinical trials.



This vaccine will be used when the 3rd dose is completed in the first quarter of next year, and the 5-11 year old and 4th dose are decided.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Kim Jun-hee)



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