A church in South Korea triggered the spread of the omiljung community, Korean media: the wide distribution of believers may cause national spread

Source: Global Times

According to the South Korean KBS TELEVISION station reported on the 6th, South Korea added 12 new cases of Omilon strain infection on the same day, and a total of 24 people were infected with Omikejong strain. South Korean Prime Minister Kim Fu-chim said on the 6th that the government will concentrate all epidemic prevention forces before the end of the year to deal with the Olmikron strain.

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South Korea's "National Daily" reported on the 6th that the South Korean Central Epidemic Prevention Countermeasures Headquarters confirmed on the same day that the new coronavirus in Omikejong has entered the fourth wave of transmission in South Korea, and the number of close contacts has reached 600 people, and the number of follow-up confirmed cases may increase significantly. In addition to the 40-year-old pastor couple who were diagnosed with Omicron on November 25, more than 360 believers of a church in Incheon were under quarantine observation.

"South Korea appeared in the Omicron community spread, suspects are related to the Incheon Church", "Korean National News" reported on the 6th, South Korea to the earliest infection of the Priest couple of the Ami Kerong variant virus in Incheon, centered on a church in Incheon, began to appear new confirmed and suspected cases of infection, some analysts believe that the new variant virus has begun to spread in the Korean community. Patients suspected of being infected with Omicjong in Seoul, Andan in Gyeonggi Province, and Chungcheongbuk-do have raised concerns that the virus has spread across the country. What is particularly worrying is that many universities in South Korea have confirmed patients in Omiclon, including Korea's Foreign Chinese University, Seoul National University, Kyung Hee University, etc., and the outside world is worried that the mutant virus may spread in Seoul centered on universities.

South Korea's "JoongAng Daily" said on the 6th that the initial spread of the Aomi Kerong virus in South Korea began with a church in Incheon as the center - in church activities, many people gathered in a confined space for a long time to recite prayers, so it is easy to have a collective infection. It is reported that the Incheon Church Church that had a problem was larger, with a total of 3600 seats. What worries South Korea's epidemic prevention department most now is that the church's adherents live in a wide range of places, which is likely to cause the virus to spread throughout the country. It has also been argued that the anti-vaccine attitude of the church's adherents is also surprising. Of the 26 believers who were diagnosed or suspected of being infected, only 7 had completed vaccination, only 2 of the remaining 19 had received their first dose, and another 17 had not been vaccinated. Considering that the vaccination rate of the entire population of South Korea has exceeded 80%, the proportion of unvaccinated people here is unusually high.

South Korean netizens almost overwhelmingly criticized the churches and pastors who triggered the spread of the Omicron. Some people said, "The community epidemic caused by the Daegu branch of Shincheon church in the beginning turned Daegu City into a scorched earth, and now there is the Incheon church incident, which is really speechless." Other South Korean netizens questioned the government's lack of strong management, which has led to the repeated spread of the epidemic in church-centered epidemic communities.