Possible COVID-19 epidemic in Korea in the summer...Vaccination for 2024-2025 Season, Unification to Health Center
Jun 11, 2025
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According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of the 25th to 31st of last month, which is the 22nd week of this year, the number of COVID-19 patients at 221 hospital-level sample monitoring medical institutions in Korea was 105, which has been slightly increasing and decreasing over the past four weeks. The number of COVID-19 hospitalized patients was 146 in the 19th week of this year, 100 in the 20th week, 98 in the 21st week, and 105 in the 22nd week.
The COVID-19 virus detection rate has been around 8% for the past three weeks, and the concentration of sewage monitoring virus is still low, but it has been showing a gradual increase (+3.2% compared to the previous week) from the 21st week.
Although the domestic situation is still stable, it is analyzed that there is no relief considering the prevalence in China, Thailand, and Taiwan and the fact that large-scale cases occurred in the summer of previous years.
Ji Young-mi, the head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on the 10th that the 5th meeting of the Joint Task Force of the Ministry of Disease Control and Prevention, which includes the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, and related experts "As of the previous day, the COVID-19 vaccination rate of the elderly aged 65 or older was 47.5%, and 5 out of 10 elderly people still have not been vaccinated against COVID-19."We hope that high-risk groups who have not yet been vaccinated will be vaccinated as soon as possible."
Currently, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is providing free COVID-19 vaccinations to high-risk groups such as the elderly over 65 years of age, immunocompromised people over 6 months of age, and hospitalized and admitted to facilities vulnerable to infection. The COVID-19 vaccination for the 2024-2025 season was originally scheduled to end at the end of April, but the deadline was extended to the 30th of this month in preparation for the summer pandemic.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will conduct vaccinations for about two weeks from the 16th to the 30th, the end point, to efficiently complete extended vaccinations. In the case of some health centers that do not administer inoculation, it was decided to inoculate through a medical institution designated by the health center. Accordingly, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged high-risk groups who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 during this period to contact the public health center first to get vaccinated at the public health center or to visit a designated medical institution according to the public health center's guidance.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to end the vaccination of COVID-19 from 2024 to 2025 by the 30th of this month, and then administer the vaccination from 2025 to 2026 with a new COVID-19 vaccine in October.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
