“Investing reserve funds and concluding domestic contracts”
The Office of the President announced on the 16th that it will use emergency reserve funds to provide additional treatment to respond to the resurgence of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).
An official from the Office of the President met with reporters at the Presidential Office in Yongsan that day and said, “We are currently actively responding to the resurgence of COVID-19,” and “We have secured an emergency reserve fund to respond to the rapidly increasing demand for treatments, and we are in the process of signing a domestic contract to supply treatments for 260,000 people.” He continued, “We cannot disclose the quantity, but we began additional supply of oral and injectable treatments starting yesterday, and we plan to expand the quantity and introduce treatments sequentially on an urgent basis,” and added that they are discussing detailed schedules with pharmaceutical companies. A high-ranking official from the Office of the President also told the Dong-A Ilbo by phone, “We currently understand that there are 30,000 doses of treatments left.”
On this day, Chief of Staff to the President Chung Jin-seok is reported to have presided over a meeting of Blue House staff members and said, “Now is the time to recommend wearing masks,” and then ordered thorough preemptive countermeasures in accordance with President Yoon Seok-yeol’s request.
Park Ji-young, director of the KCDC Stockpile Management Division, said in a briefing that afternoon, “The KCDC is also aware of the shortage of treatments, and we are deeply sorry.” Regarding mask-wearing, Hong Jeong-ik, head of the COVID-19 Response Team’s Situation Response Team, said, “Although it is not mandatory, we have raised the mask-wearing recommendation level to ‘strong recommendation’ as the number of COVID-19 patients increases.”
The government also held an emergency risk assessment meeting on the same day to prepare for the possibility of the domestic inflow of the variant MPOx (formerly known as monkeypox), which the World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared a state of emergency.
Reporter Shin Na-ri [email protected]
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2024-08-17 22:31:08