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The number of additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Korea was 26,000, below 50,000 for a week in a row.

At the government's last quarantine meeting held today (6th), Prime Minister Kim Bu-gyeom evaluated that the government's quarantine was successful.

Whether or not it can be seen that way, we focused on the government's vaccine policy.



This is Correspondent Han Seong-hee.



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At the last major meeting of the government, the quarantine achievements were mentioned.



[Kim Bu-gyeom/Prime Minister: Looking at the objective figures alone, our quarantine measures deserve to be evaluated as successful.]



The low mortality rate and generous score among major countries are possible indicators.



[Kwon Deok-cheol / Minister of Health and Welfare: The cumulative fatality rate is 0.13%, and the number of deaths per 100,000 people is 45.

It has the third highest mortality rate among OECD countries and the fifth highest death toll per capita...

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It was thanks to the high vaccination rate that it overcame the wave of epidemics several times.



The primary and secondary vaccination rates are 80% and 65% for the third, which is higher than the US, Japan, and major European countries, and is at the forefront of the OECD countries.



[Hur Mi-ran / Yangcheon-gu, Seoul: About 80% of the people were able to get it, the vaccine was distributed fairly...

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There were concerns and confusion in the early days of the vaccine policy.



The first vaccine was introduced in February last year, the last among OECD countries.



It was 81 days behind the UK, which was the fastest.



[Kim Seong-ju / Democratic Party member (January 8, 2021): Other countries are starting to vaccinate, aren't there concerns and dissatisfaction about what we cannot do yet?]



[Chung Sye-kyun / then Prime Minister (January 8, 2021) ) : We are preparing to issue the permit in the earliest possible time, but it will take about 40 days...

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In the process of pre-registration for vaccination, the public had to suffer inconvenience due to the lack of servers, and the quarantine pass was abolished by a court decision after causing controversy over its fairness.



[Kim Do-hyeon / Yangcheon-gu, Seoul: There were a lot of people who were marginalized because of the vaccine pass, and there were definitely people who didn't fit because of health problems, but they were excluded from all gatherings...

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It is pointed out that the suffering of the victims and their families due to the side effects of the vaccine should have been carefully considered.



(Video coverage: Jeong Seong-hwa, video editing: Lee Seung-yeol, CG: Lee Jong-jeong)