[Exclusive] 22 of 23 Cluster COVID-19 Cases at Seoul City Hall Are Breakthrough Infections

On the 8th, 22 executives and staff from Seoul City Urban Transportation Department tested positive for COVID-19, with 1 more confirmed on the 9th, totaling 23... Among them, 22 had received two vaccine doses, drawing attention... Seoul City’s Park Yumi, Director of Citizen Health Bureau, speculates "Is the vaccine efficacy period too short?"

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Among the 23 executives and employees of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's Urban Transportation Office who tested positive for COVID-19, it has been reported that 22 of them were breakthrough infections, having contracted the virus after receiving their second vaccine dose, causing shock.

As of the 8th, 22 executives and employees of the Seoul Urban Transportation Office were reported to have been infected in a cluster, and on the morning of the 9th, one more person tested positive, bringing the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 23. Out of 146 tested individuals, 23 were positive and 123 were negative.

The issue is that 22 of them (95%) had completed their second vaccine dose, raising suspicions about whether there is a significant problem with the vaccine.

According to the status of confirmed cases compiled by Seoul City as of 11 a.m. on the 9th, a total of 23 people including department heads, section chiefs, and employees were counted.

However, only employee A (grade 6) from the Taxi Policy Division had not been vaccinated, while the remaining 22 had all completed their second vaccine dose.

Additionally, it was reported that four of them were asymptomatic.

Park Yumi, Director of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's Citizen Health Bureau, said, "It is thought that the vaccine's effective period might be short."

Meanwhile, two executives from the Urban Transportation Office have been admitted to a residential treatment center.