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The number of new confirmed corona patients 19 in Korea recorded the highest number of confirmed cases per day since the first corona patients first occurred in Korea on January 20. As the number of new confirmed cases increased each day, there were 13 deaths on the 14th, followed by 12 deaths on the 15th, and Corona 19 killed 25 people at a time over two days. Since the number of seriously ill patients has risen significantly to 226, more deaths are feared. As the death toll and the number of critically ill patients rise rapidly, only one critically ill bed remains available in Seoul. The government is actively considering a plan to increase social distancing in three stages.
According to the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters (Bang Dae-bon), the number of new confirmed patients at 0 o’clock on the 16th was a record 1078. It is also the second record of 1,000 people after 10.30 a.m. 13. The number of confirmed local outbreaks averages 832.6 per day and meets the three-step update criteria (more than 800-1000 nationwide or doubled in step 2.5). The government plans to decide whether to increase the distance to three steps in consideration of the medical and quarantine situation, social conditions and agreements. Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun said on the day that “the final decision, which is the three-stage update, cannot be ruled out.” Seoul City has decided to initiate a comprehensive inspection for employees in the distribution and logistics business, such as package delivery, food and beverage businesses, call centers and sewing businesses, as well as religious facility workers, household workers of the elderly, emergency care workers and public transportation drivers.
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On the 16th, Minister of Health and Welfare Park Neung-hoo visited Seoul Station Square, where a temporary screening clinic was set up in Jung-gu, Seoul, and is undergoing rapid antigen testing for Corona. 19. [사진 = 연합뉴스]As the number of new confirmed cases, deaths, and seriously ill patients rapidly increases, the pressure is mounting to increase social distancing in the third stage.
The government plans to decide whether to increase the distance in three steps, taking into account medical and quarantine conditions, social conditions and agreements. Tae-ho Yoon, head of quarantine prevention at Accident Recovery Headquarters (heavy water version), said: “Step 3 is the last strong measure, causing widespread harm to the self-employed, so is updated by collecting expert opinions that include each department of the central government, local government and vital quarantine committee. We are reviewing in depth, “he said.” Not only the number of patients, but also the ability to respond to the quarantine and medical treatment, the outbreak of the future based on the reproductive rate of infection, the proportion of patients with serious and serious illnesses and the elderly aged 60 years and over, We will comprehensively consider social conditions and agreements. ”Sohn Young- rae, head of the Strategic Planning Division, said: “(third step) the socio-economic damage is so great and the effect must be assured. For this, it is very important that the consent and participation of the public is maximized and aggregated. “It will be a very important criterion to judge how well the quarantine response capacity is in the current situation, if it is impossible to resist or if it can resist.”
The government is currently working on fine-tuning details related to distancing measures. “The third epidemic has a very broad base of outbreaks in the local community, and there are many cases of infection through small-scale family and family gatherings, so we must take this into account.” For example, if the group ban criterion in step 3 is “10 or more”, a plan is analyzed to strengthen it to “5 or more”. Already, the average number of confirmed cases per day in the weekly area was 832.6, meeting the criteria of the three stages (average of 800-1000 or more per day, or rapid increase in patients as doubling). Infectious disease experts agreed that a three-tier update is necessary.
Lee Jae-gap, professor of infectious medicine at Hallym University Gangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, said: “Last month, the intention to suppress the outbreak by implementing a precise quarantine in life by reorganizing the distancing The first stage failed. Not only did he go upstage, but it was a flimsy middle stage, leading to a situation where the public could not be alerted and fashion could not be rejected. If this time is wasted, we may have to make extreme prescriptions such as restricting the passage of all the public ”.
Lee Wang-joon, president of Myongji Hospital, also said: “In the current situation, it seems inevitable that the three-stage upgrade is inevitable, and is realizing the ominous premonition that this Christmas can be spent under a touch of remains”. “We have to gather wisdom to overcome the situation.”
Some experts have been known to suggest that if the distance rises to three stages, most stores, except for essential facilities like food, glasses, and medicine, should stop, or only packing and delivery should be allowed for restaurants.
As the number of confirmed cases increases rapidly, so do the number of seriously ill and ill patients and deaths. In two days 25 people died, and by 16, the death toll was 612. “There were many confirmed cases of the elderly due to the outbreak of the group’s nursing hospitals and nursing facilities,” Ban said. “There are many cases where people over the age of 80 and 90 and those with underlying diseases experience a sudden worsening of symptoms due to low immunity,” he said. The number of patients with serious and serious illnesses also increased from 21 to 226. Consequently, the problem of the shortage of beds is also worsening. According to the heavy-water version, there are only 40 critically ill beds in the country and 3 in the metropolitan area that can be used immediately from the 15th. Among them, there are 1 in Seoul and 2 in Incheon, and 0 in Gyeonggi. -do. The government even introduced a “treatment bed for quasi-critical patients” to increase the use of beds.
Experts advise that a dedicated hospital with critical care capacity should be secured. Regarding the rapid increase in seriously ill patients, President Lee Wang-joon said, “We need to create a hospital that functions like Dongsan Hospital at that time, referring to the experiences in Daegu and Gyeongbuk during the first epidemic. Among the public hospitals. , a large hospital capable of treating critically ill patients (a hospital with specialized personnel)) It must be changed to at least two dedicated hospitals. ”
Professor Hong Yoon-cheol from the Seoul National University Faculty of Preventive Medicine said: “It is an urgent disaster situation.” The situation has become more important ”, he emphasized. He said: “It is not a problem to create a bed for critically ill patients, but because of the labor, it is not possible to increase it much.”
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