오후 9시에 이미 9만228명 확진…내일 10만명 근접 예상
We begin with the worsening COVID-19 state of affairs in South Korea.
Officers are forecasting yet one more report variety of each day infections on Thursday…this time probably within the six-figure vary for the primary time.
For extra, our reporter Shin Ye-eun is within the studio.
Good morning, Ye-eun.
Good morning.
Begin us off with the each day determine we’re anticipating right this moment.
Thursday’s determine could attain the 100-thousand mark.
As much as 9pm Wednesday, the nation reported 90-thousand 228 infections.
This was a rise of greater than 5-thousand from yesterday’s earlier record-high for a similar interval.
We’re seeing figures double, identical to authorities had forecast.
Well being consultants say that, primarily based on how briskly Omicron is spreading proper now, each day figures may very well be within the 200-thousands by early subsequent month.
Schooling authorities in South Korea are nonetheless planning on having college students return to lecture rooms within the spring semester. Nonetheless, they have been sharing how they plan to maintain college students protected throughout this wave….
Positive.
Schooling Minister Yoo Eun-hae shared the ministry’s plan for a way colleges ought to begin the brand new semester in March…SAFELY.
Their most important technique is offering greater than 60 million fast antigen check kits to all college students and workers from kindergartens as much as excessive colleges… freed from cost.
“Now we have secured a complete of 60.5 million check kits… that are sufficient to final 5 weeks… from the fourth week of February to the fifth week of March. We’re making preparations… to distribute them to college students and colleges… when the brand new semester begins on March 2nd. 146.4 billion received from our schooling finances… will probably be allotted to this effort,… and every scholar will obtain 9 check kits… whereas college members will obtain 4.”
The ministry beneficial all college students check themselves twice every week… ideally on Sunday and Wednesday nights.
All workers are being requested to check themselves weekly earlier than Monday.
College students and workers ought to then share their outcomes with their colleges… utilizing the self-test package app.
Those that check constructive, have to get a PCR check.
Self-testing youngsters is not necessary…nonetheless, I perceive officers say it is extremely beneficial?
That is proper.
The Ministry is simply offering a normal guideline.
College students and workers will not be punished for going to highschool untested.
However, there’s been blended reactions in direction of this newest determination.
Whereas some dad and mom are saying they’re relieved that solely college students who check adverse will PHYSICALLY go to the lecture rooms…others are saying that it looks as if testing college students EVEN WITHOUT SYMPTOMS…will change into the norm.
Some academics and workers have been additionally towards the Ministry’s determination…citing that it will trigger loads of confusion as soon as the semester begins.
They added fast antigen check kits will not do sufficient to stop cluster infections…provided that they don’t seem to be as correct as PCR exams.
As of Thursday, 6:30 am right here in Seoul…over 80 thousand individuals signed a petition uploaded on the Blue Home… towards the implementation of self-test kits at kindergartens and elementary colleges.
On the worldwide entrance now. European international locations, hit hardest by Omicron, have been seeing large drops in new infections. In consequence, they’re easing a few of their measures….
That is proper.
In response to the WHO, the variety of COVID-19 infections world wide from February seventh to the thirteenth got here down by 19 p.c…in comparison with the earlier week.
Europe, specifically, noticed an on-week drop of 16 p.c.
That is why France reopened its nightclubs from Wednesday, native time.
Final December, French authorities had closed nightclubs utterly.
However now, these with a vaccine go, which means people who find themselves fully-vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 throughout the previous six months, can enter, with no cap on the variety of individuals inside.
France will even raise masks mandates at indoor services that solely permit these with vaccine passes to enter from February twenty eighth.
Switzerland will even be lifting most of its virus prevention measures.
Beginning Thursday, they are going to permit everybody…no matter vaccination standing…to enter eating places and shops.
It is price noting although that 90 p.c of its inhabitants has both been absolutely vaccinated or recovered after catching the virus.
As the worldwide COVID-19 state of affairs appears to be clearing up, Moderna’s CEO Stephane Bancel stated in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday that it is affordable to contemplate the pandemic as being nearly over.
Bancel stated that there is “about an 80% probability” that because the virus evolves, it is going to change into “much less and fewer virulent.”
Alright, thanks in your report Ye-eun.
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2022-02-17, 08:00 (KST)
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So masks don’t work.
Please be careful everyone. 💞 Take omnicron seriously.
3 deaths under 19. Hysteria.