Kim Jong-in: "Advanced countries secured vaccines, but Moon government spent 120 billion won only on promoting K-Quarantine... a great disaster"

The People Power Party criticized the government's incompetence in handling COVID-19, stating that "the COVID-19 crisis is a great disaster caused by the president's and government's misjudgments and delayed measures, as well as a man-made disaster."

[Asia Economy Reporter Hana Na] On the 13th, as the number of new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) exceeded 1,000, the People Power Party blamed the government's incompetence, stating that "the COVID-19 crisis is a great disaster and a man-made tragedy caused by the president's and government's misjudgment and delayed measures."

Kim Jong-in, the Emergency Response Committee Chairman, said at the party's special COVID-19 countermeasures committee emergency meeting that day, "Whether the repeated deceptive statements to the public by the Moon Jae-in administration, which boasted about the success of K-quarantine, were due to the president's incompetence or false reports from aides, all responsibility lies with President Moon."

Chairman Kim criticized, "Advanced countries secured vaccines several times their population size, but the government not only failed to secure COVID-19 vaccines but also lacked hospital beds and medical staff, focusing only on self-praise."

He added, "I am so angry at the government's incompetent response that has not improved at all."

Floor Leader Joo Ho-young also criticized, saying, "While spending 120 billion won on (K-quarantine) publicity, the government caused a disaster with major failures in quarantine and vaccine procurement."

Regarding the government's announcement of securing 44 million doses of vaccines, Floor Leader Joo pointed out, "Only 10 million doses have been definitively contracted, and even those products have not received approval from the U.S. FDA. It is known that FDA approval will only be possible in the latter half of next year."

Meanwhile, the number of new domestic COVID-19 confirmed cases reached the 1,000 mark for the first time in history. Notably, nearly 80% of the confirmed cases were concentrated in the metropolitan area, with cases in Seoul alone approaching 400.

Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun stated at an emergency meeting held at 2 p.m. at the Government Seoul Office, attended by Minister of Health and Welfare Park Neung-hoo and metropolitan area local government heads, "If we fail to curb the current spread, it will be inevitable to raise social distancing to level 3."

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