Prime minister declares all-out fight against virus spread in Seoul, nearby areas
2020/12/09 10:28
PM-virus response
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Yonhap) — Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said Wednesday that the government will concentrate “all of its capabilities” on countering the rapid spread of COVID-19 in and around Seoul.
“(The government) will focus all of its capabilities (in the greater Seoul area),” he said, stressing the significance of turning around the situations in the region where around half of South Korea’s 52-million population reside.
“The trend of COVID-19 spreading in the capital region is very serious,” he said during a government meeting of top officials in charge of dealing with the pandemic.’
Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun presides over a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters held at the provincial government office of Gyeonggi Province in Suwon, 45 kilometers south of Seoul, on Dec. 9, 2020. (Yonhap)
The meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters was held at the provincial government office of Gyeonggi Province in Suwon, 45 kilometers south of Seoul.
Since Tuesday, the government has imposed the second-toughest curbs of the five-tiered virus restriction system in Seoul and the nearby city of Incheon and Gyeonggi Province, which have experienced a rapid climb in new cases, and mid-level restrictions in the rest of the country.
Chung said the government is meticulously planning its vaccine administration program, including the selection of first recipients and the logistics of vaccines, and pledged to do the utmost to administer vaccines to the general public when needed after monitoring the situations in other countries.
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