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Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun is entering the COVID-19 Disaster and Security Countermeasures Headquarters meeting held at the Seoul Government Complex in Jongno-gu on the afternoon of the 27th. At the main script meeting of On that day, it was decided to extend ‘social distancing’ to the current state until January 3 of next year. Newsis
Stage 2.5 of ‘social distancing’ in the metropolitan area will run until January 3 of next year. For more than 15 days, the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (Corona 19) infection has been recorded at around 1,000 per day, so there have been observations that the three-step update is inevitable, but the The government concluded with “Let’s see a little more.” The decision was made taking into account the fact that intensive year-end and New Year quarantine measures, such as recommending the cancellation of meetings with five or more people, are being implemented across the country and the availability of beds is rapid. . However, even in fast food stores, ‘clamp measures’ have been added again at the current stage for quarantine blind spots, such as a ban on sitting in the store if only drinks are ordered.
Three reasons to keep the scene … Suppression of the accounting rate, expansion of beds and strengthening of the quarantine during the end of the year and New Year holidays.
The Central Headquarters for Security and Disaster Countermeasures held a meeting on the afternoon of the 27th and said: “The 2.5 steps for distant distances in the metropolitan area and the second step for non-capital areas, which are scheduled to end on the 28th, will be carried out during the year-end period and the New Year’s quarantine strengthening special measures period (December 24 to January 2021). It was decided to extend it for 6 days until January 3 of next year in accordance with Number 3).
It seems that in the background of this decision was the ruling that the spread of Crown 19 in the metropolitan area is being suppressed to some extent. It is a diagnosis that the number of new confirmed cases is not declining markedly due to the 2.5 steps in the metropolitan area, which was implemented during the last three weeks, but is not expanding rapidly.
In a briefing immediately after the headquarters meeting, Kwon Deok-cheol (Minister of Health and Welfare) said: “Efforts to block through distancing and testing are keeping a close balance with the spread of the epidemic.” . “During the last two weeks, about 700 patients per day The increase in patients in the metropolitan area where the disease occurred is slowing down, and it is a positive sign that the infectious reproductive index fell from 1.27 last week (13- December 19) to 1.07 this week (20-26 days) “. The infection reproduction rate is a number that indicates how many people are infected by a confirmed person.
The fact that special measures to reinforce quarantine during the end of the year and New Year holidays, such as recommending the cancellation of meetings with five or more people, have come into effect before the Christmas holidays, is considered a background which excludes the upgrade in three stages. Prime Minister Chung Sye-gyun said in a speech at the main script meeting that day, “The special measures that we are already implementing include stronger quarantine measures than the third stage of distancing.”
The fact that securing beds in preparation for a surge in patients is also proceeding as planned also influenced the day’s decision. According to the script, the number of beds available to Corona 19 patients has more than doubled from 2,548 beds in 12 to 5,813 beds as of 26. The number of Corona 19 beds in critical condition in the metropolitan area, which Once down to single digits, it has room for up to 80 beds. As a result, the number of patients waiting more than a day in the metropolitan area, which had exceeded 500, has dropped to 96 as of the 27th.
Deputy Director General Kwon said: “It is difficult to see quarantine and medical response capabilities as a limit, and it is also necessary to look at the trend of patient growth through quarantine measures during the end of the year and the New Year period. “.
Additional countermeasures and … Resumption of next weekend in the third stage
However, it was decided to improve some of the quarantine rules related to restaurants and cafes, which got confused on the site and raised the issue of fairness. Fast food restaurants, like cafes, only accept packaging and delivery if they only order coffee, drinks, and desserts. Consequently, if you order only drinks at stores like Lotte Liana and McDonald’s, you cannot sit down and drink. The rules to ban unstaffed cafeteria seating and to ban Hold’em pubs, which applied only to the metropolitan area, will be extended to non-metropolitan areas. The government will maintain the current distancing phase, including these additional measures, until January 3 and will reconsider whether to adjust the phase next weekend.
However, around 1,000 new confirmed cases are shed every day, and there are still concerns that if the point of the third-stage update is missed, this will lead to further spread. As it has been confirmed once again that the government is feeling a great burden from the economic damage in the medical world, even the observations that the upgrade of the third stage is not easy unless the number of confirmed cases increases dramatically.
Eun-mi Chun, professor of infectious medicine at Ewha Women’s University Mokdong Hospital, said: “It is true that the third stage will have a great impact on the economy because it almost limits the multipurpose facilities.” It can be more effective in quarantine, “he said.
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