Welfare Minister Kwon Deok-cheol announced on the 9th as a means to promote vaccination, saying, "The final hurdle has come before the 70% vaccination rate is achieved in the second half of the year."
Minister Kwon (1st deputy chief of the major script) remarked that the quarantine was watching the spread of the delta mutation with the goal of '70% collective immunity', but when the spread was faster than expected, he mobilized the shock of strengthening the metropolitan area by 4 steps as a means of '70% inoculation'. interpreted
Minister Kwon’s remarks are that the government’s “70% vaccine” strategy, not the people, is the government’s “vaccine 70%” strategy.
Prime Minister Kim Bu-gyeom decided to 'extend the second-stage quarantine by one week' on the 7th, and then to KBS, 'Isn't it possible to send a hopeful message early by easing quarantine from the 1st?' Since the (vaccination) went more smoothly than expected, it was important to keep the promise to reorganize the distance as promised in July,” he said, revealing that vaccination is a higher concept than social distancing.
On the 7th, Prime Minister Kim repeated the decision of the major script by appearing on KBS MBC, etc.
The French scientific committee said in a panel of experts in establishing quarantine measures that "a fourth pandemic due to delta mutation can happen quickly" and that "the spread cannot be controlled unless 90 to 95 percent are vaccinated or infected." In order to prevent this, the French AFP news agency announced on the 9th that it is calling for a much higher vaccination rate and strengthened follow-up. The French scientific committee said that the fourth pandemic caused by the delta mutation "can happen quickly, It was reported that he called for 'strengthening follow-up investigations on infection cases'. In France, the primary vaccination rate is about half and the second vaccination is about 40% of the population, and by the end of August, the total population Two-thirds of the 35 million vaccination policy was announced.
The South Korean government-led cell phone tracking and quarantine system applied the quarantine law of two years in prison for false statements and refusal to testify of infected people. The study of voluntary response to shock therapy was excluded from stage 2 to stage 4 due to this delta explosion.
President Moon Jae-in ordered the “punishment of one hundred and fifty workers” through a cabinet meeting on the 7th to prevent the spread of delta.
As of the 10th, the number of primary vaccine recipients was 15,573,316, which is 30.3% of the population, and until the second vaccination, 5,81,997, or 11.3%, of the population. 166,722 people. The remaining vaccines in Korea are 2,832,300 doses, Pfizer 2167,600 doses, AstraZeneca 253,200 doses, and Moderna 411,500 doses.
The government's target for the first vaccination in the third quarter is 22 million and 36 million by the end of September, and the third quarter vaccination started on July 5.
From the end of February to the end of June, there were 84,839 reports of adverse reactions, or 0.45% of 18.8 million vaccinated people. As for the adverse reactions, 8687 cases (95.1%) such as muscle pain, headache, dizziness, etc., and 4152 cases (4.9%) of serious adverse reactions such as death and suspicion of anaphylaxis, overlapped with the adverse reaction caused by the vaccine strategy and the spread of delta in quarantine. The pressure on the emergency room system is likely to increase.