With 600 new confirmed people… Quarantine authorities “passing the peak of the third pandemic”

On the 3rd, immigrants are undergoing corona 19 testing at the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) test center located at Incheon International Airport Terminal 2 in Jung-gu, Incheon. The government mandated all foreigners entering Korea to submit a gene amplification test (PCR) negative confirmation from the 8th at the airport and the 15th at the port. Incheon = News 1-The government’s interpretation that the third pandemic of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) in Korea, which started in November last year, has reached its peak. The government predicted that the number of new corona19 confirmed cases in Korea will gradually decrease from the next two weeks.

At a regular briefing held on the 3rd, Sohn Young-rae, head of the strategic planning division of the Central Accident Control Headquarters, said, “As the preemptive test of (Corona 19) is expanded and distance is continually strengthened, the spread of the third epidemic is being prevented.” “I see it as being located at a fork in the current temporary peak state, or as it gently passes through the peak.”

The number of new confirmed cases on this day was 657, which fell to 600 in 23 days after December 11 (689) last year. In the last week from December 27th to 2nd last year, the value of the Infectious Reproduction Index (R0) was 1.0, down from the previous week (1.1). R0 refers to the number of people who can transmit an infectious disease patient. In theory, when the R0 value is lower than 1, the number of new infectious diseases decreases.

On the other hand, the government came up with urgent measures to prevent infection in nursing hospitals where high-risk corona19 groups such as the elderly and underlying diseases gathered. In accordance with this measure, nursing hospitals should change the cohort (same group) quarantine method in the future to clearly distinguish the space where the confirmed and non-confirmed people stay. If a large-scale group infection occurs in a nursing hospital, there are two ways to respond. First of all, if the number of corona confirmed patients exceeds the number of non-confirmed patients, all non-contact patients with a low risk of corona infection are sent to other nursing hospitals. In the opposite case, the confirmed person or close contact with high risk of infection will be transferred to a hospital dedicated to Corona 19. Previously, corona19 confirmed and non-confirmed in nursing hospitals were accommodated only in wards or floors, so the possibility of cross-infection between them was not small. During the month of December last year, 996 new cases of Corona 19 and 99 deaths occurred in 14 nursing hospitals.

Reporter Kang Dong-woong [email protected]