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| ▲ Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun chairs an emergency meeting at the Disaster and Security Countermeasures Headquarters (Company) in response to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) held at the government office in Seoul on the afternoon of the day 12. | |
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Shin Jae-woo = As the momentum of the ‘third pandemic’ of a new coronavirus infection in Korea (Corona 19) is getting stronger, the number of new cases confirmed by day finally surpassed the 1,000 mark.
At 0 o’clock on the 13th, 1,030 new confirmed cases were the highest since January 20, when the first corona19 patient occurred in Korea.
In terms of scale and scope, this outbreak is already setting new records every day after having overcome the ‘second pandemic’ centered in the metropolitan area from August to September, as well as the ‘first pandemic’ centered in Daegu and Gyeongbuk in February and March.
The quarantine authorities analyzed that the effect of raising the level of ‘social distancing’ in the metropolitan area has not been sufficiently demonstrated, and they predict that the current level of diffusion will continue for the time being.
As the Corona 19 showed a tendency to accelerate the spread instead of calming down, the government also began to prepare measures, such as collecting expert opinions, seeing that raising the distance to the third stage may be inevitable.
In particular, the government is also preparing countermeasures as the bed shortage has become a reality and the burden on the overall medical system has increased due to the rapid increase in new confirmed cases.
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| ▲ Citizens are waiting to be tested at the screening clinic at the Gangseo-gu Health Center in Seoul on the morning of the 12th, with the spread of the new coronavirus (Corona 19) “third pandemic” infection in Korea. | |
| Ⓒ Yonhap News |
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According to the Central Defense Response Headquarters (Bang Daebon), at 0 o’clock on this day, the number of new confirmed patients was 1.30, counting up to 1,000 for the first time since the corona 19 epidemic in Korea.
This is 121 people over 909 people on February 29, when the first pandemic peaked, and 80 people over 950 the day before, and the record was set for two consecutive days.
The number of new confirmed patients was 451 → 511 → 540 → 628 → 577 → 631 → 615 → 592 → 671 → 680 → 689 daily until the 11th of this month. It continued, but the day before, after it increased to 950 people, it rose to 1,000 people.
Quarantine authorities expect the general trend to continue for now.
In a briefing the day before, Lim Sook-young, general manager of Bang Dae-bon situation, asked if the size of the 900 new confirmed cases is a temporary phenomenon: “Because the effect of the distance of 2.5 steps usually shows up after a week, I carefully predict that this number will continue for the time being.
The reason for the recent increase in confirmed cases is that the ‘latent infection’ spread in Seoul and the Gyeonggi area has spread to large-scale group infections, such as the Sungseok Church in Gangseo-gu, Seoul and the Hospital of Hyoplus Infirmary in Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do.
The day before, at least nine people were recently confirmed at Catholic St. Mary’s Hospital in Seocho-gu, Seoul, and five employees from a cleaning consignment company were confirmed as a group at an apartment complex in the international city of Songdo. , Yeonsu-gu, Incheon.
Step 3 is ‘Last card’ … The government begins to gather opinions with caution
As Corona 19 spreads with terrifying momentum, the government has opened up the possibility of raising the gap to three stages and began preparing comprehensive measures.
Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun said at an emergency quarantine countermeasures meeting chaired the previous day at the Seoul Government Complex, “the biggest crisis since the outbreak of Corona 19, and a very urgent emergency to fight the village “. It will be inevitable. “
In particular, he emphasized, “you must overcome this crisis by mobilizing all your capacities. In the event of an emergency, you must decide and support based on different standards than usual.”
Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myeong, who attended the meeting, officially suggested that “it is necessary to preventively raise the distance between the metropolitan area to three stages.”
Some infectious disease experts also ordered a preventive update, citing the possibility of facing a pandemic of 2,000 new confirmed cases per day.
Professor Dong-Hyun Kim from the Department of Social Medicine at Hallym University School of Medicine spoke to Yonhap News and said, “It is not at the current level of detachment, and it must be raised to the third level.” “Of course, the current update standard has not been reached, but until now, even after the update standard has been met. He hesitated, and then continued to delay a heartbeat,” he noted.
As the voices of the three-stage update were raised, quarantine authorities began gathering opinions from local governments and private experts in the metropolitan area.
Quarantine authorities say it takes a little longer for the effect of stage 2.5 to take effect in the metropolitan area, which began on the 8th, but the movement of people is not reduced enough despite the successive increase in distance, and the shortage of beds is gradually becoming a reality due to the rapid increase in confirmed cases. If necessary, the policy is to discuss the three-step upgrade.
Step 3 is based on a nationwide pandemic and is the ‘last card’ taken when faced with the risk of collapse of the medical system as the number of patients rapidly increases across the country.
The number of confirmed cases of local outbreaks in daily average in the last week may increase if more than 800 to 1000 confirmed cases come out, or if there is a rapid increase in patients such as ‘double ring’, which doubles compared to the previous day, this criterion has not yet been met.
In the third stage, as more than 500,000 multipurpose facilities such as wedding halls, cinemas and PC rooms are closed across the country, there will be enormous social and economic damage, as well as rejection of the self-employed and small business owners. . In the course of the discussion, controversies are expected.
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