Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum urged South Koreans on Friday to minimise holiday travel and asked companies to show flexibility in letting people work from home amid a worsening fourth wave of Covid-19 infections and a shortage of vaccines in the country.
The spread of the virus has accelerated as the highly transmissible Delta variant has become the dominant strain in the country, and authorities' contact tracing has been unable to keep track of transmissions over peak summer season for domestic travel.
"There have been many workplace clusters recently," Kim told a televised speech."Please make sure the employees returning to work to check for symptoms like fever." Kim added the government will issue an administrative order to secure at least 5% of hospital beds for serious Covid-19 cases in 26 general hospitals in the capital Seoul and surrounding areas.
A government delegation led by Vice Health Minister Kang Do-tae left for Boston for talks with Moderna Inc on Friday morning to express"profound regret" and protest against the U.S. vaccine maker's repeated shipment delays, health ministry official Son Young-rae told a briefing.
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