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Step 3 → 5 distance for sustainability
Criticism of “Insufficient Detailed Measures to Reduce Awareness”
Even the voice of “I can’t know the answer, keep fixing the quarantine”
In response to the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the owner posts a ‘welcome to lunch’ message at a restaurant in Ingye-dong, Paldal-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, on the afternoon of 23, one day before the current step 1.5 to the second stage of social distancing in the metropolitan area. Newsis
As the government announced the update of the second step three days after applying the 1.5-step social distancing to the metropolitan area, voices of criticism about the effectiveness of the subdivided distancing reorganization are mounting. It was ‘sustainable quarantine’, where quarantine and everyday life coexist, and furthermore, the level was subdivided with the focus on economic recovery, but the standard was raised rapidly, but detailed measures were insufficient, lowering awareness of the echelon and causing confusion.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Bangdaebon) on the 23rd, the number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) in Korea increased by 271 from the day before to 31,004. Although the number of new confirmed cases dropped to 200 in six days, the impact of the decrease in the number of inspectors on weekends was great.
According to the trend of recent outbreaks, the infection is mainly spreading among young people in their 20s and 30s with high levels of activity, and infections in small groups occur in daily life, such as sauna, school, the gym, etc., which increases the feeling of crisis. Asymptomatic and mild patients accumulated in the community during the first and second pandemics are one of the risk factors. In a briefing on the day of the Korea Disease Service Commission, Chung Eun-kyung explained, “As the epidemic has continued for 10 months, hundreds of cases of unknown infection have accumulated. The risk of transmission due to Asymptomatic, mild and undiagnosed symptoms are quite large, and this has become widespread. ”
As the expansion trend was not serious, the government announced on the 17th, two days after the announcement of the preliminary warning on the 15th, that it would raise the distance to the metropolitan area to 1.5 levels. The application time was adjusted to 0 hours on the 19th, two days later. Step 1.5 was applied later only after the new confirmed cases, which occurred from 100 to 200 each day, entered the range of 300. At 0:00 on the 19th, the number of new confirmed cases in Korea arrived at 343.
Although experts at the time said: “We have to go directly to the second stage”, the government has always adhered to the position of “it is still difficult to refer to it as a third pandemic” or that “the effect of the update of the stage will appear 10 days later, and the trend should be observed. ” Then, when 300 new cases occurred over three days in a row, it recognized that the third pandemic had started suddenly on the 20th and announced the upgrade to the second stage on the 22nd. Consequently, the second stage applies to the metropolitan area for two weeks from 0 hours on the 24th.
Experts, however, questioned the effect of the second stage update and criticized the reorganized distancing for containing the quarantine. In particular, it is noted that it is difficult to maintain alertness because the standard for the step-up is too high at one time, but the detailed measurements are not detailed. In the existing distancing system, if the average number of confirmed patients per day during the last two weeks was more than 100 to 200, step 3 had to be considered, but now step 1.5 applies when there are more than 100 people in the metropolitan area. In step 1.5, restrictions on the number of users will be tightened and dancing in the club is prohibited, but it is not possible to avoid infection simply not by dancing in a 3-story space (dense, closed, closed), but the effectiveness of the details is too low. All. Choi Won-seok, professor of infectious medicine at the former Ansan Hospital, said: “(The reorganized distance) is to accept the spread of local communities to a certain level. He said:” It is necessary to slightly lower the standards. ”
The social distancing of the government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus infection (Corona 19) has been raised in the second phase of the metropolitan area, and since the 24th, primary and secondary schools must maintain the number of students attending at the same time within a third of all students. High school can attend up to two-thirds of the school, as can level 1 or level 1.5. On the morning of the 23rd, the students attend school near an elementary school in central Seoul. 2020.11.23 / News 1
There are also opinions that adequate political assistance to the stage is needed. Lee Jae-gap, professor of infectious medicine at Hallym University Gangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, said: “If the goal is to maintain a sustainable quarantine according to daily routines and quarantine, we must make the daily space be as safe as possible so that we can stay at the lower level without raising the bar. ”He criticized that he had implemented a policy that did not fit.
However, the experts also highlighted that Corona 19 is a disease that everyone suffers from for the first time, and since no one knows the ‘correct answer’ on which is the correct one, there is no choice but to continuously modify and reorganize the quarantine system. . Professor Choi said, “Even one or two reorganizations will not be perfect,” he said. “We have no choice but to keep looking for policies that minimize damage and to what extent they can afford it through ongoing modification.”
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