Many of the congregation are older than 60 and unvaccinated — just 17 out of the 241 confirmed cases were vaccinated
Seoul — A little known sect led by a pastor who pokes eyes to heal is at the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak in South Korea, as the country reported a new daily record of 4,116 cases for Tuesday and battles a spike in serious cases straining hospitals.
“I believe it’s the church’s antigovernment beliefs that refrained the believers to get the vaccine,” the official said, adding that the town was put under a lockdown. “Such act is extremely dangerous and nonbiblical. It is an outright ban in Korean Christianity,” Jung said, adding that the pastor’s mother was a powerful figure and was ousted from Christian community in the 1990s for practising identical rituals.The outbreak is a small portion of the national total, but is an example of a cluster with a high concentration of cases.
He called on health authorities to classify the patients accordingly based on the severity of the symptoms and make use of self-treatment options for mild or asymptomatic cases.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency had said the emergency plan may be imposed if and when the nationwide ICU bed capacity surpassed 75% or depending on the risk assessment that reviews medical response shortfalls, surge in number of elderly patients and uptake in booster shots.
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