Government “If we cannot capture the spread, the adjustment of the third stage is inevitable … The metropolitan area is already at war”



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    Park Neung-hoo, the First Deputy Head of the Security and Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters (Minister of Health and Welfare), chairs a meeting of the Disaster Security Countermeasures Headquarters for Corona 19 at the City Government Complex from Sejong on the morning of the 7th.
Park Neung-hoo, the First Deputy Head of the Security and Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters (Minister of Health and Welfare), chairs a meeting of the Disaster Security Countermeasures Headquarters for Corona 19 at the City Government Complex from Sejong on the morning of the 7th.
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The number of new confirmed daily corona19 cases surpassed 600 on the 7th and registered 600 people for two consecutive days.

Park Neung-hoo, deputy director general of the Security and Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters (Company Script), said in a speech at the main script meeting held at the Seoul Government Complex on the same day: “Despite the decrease in inspection volume over the weekend, the number of confirmed patients has been recorded for two consecutive days. Unprecedented. Scale. “

“As of the past 6 days, 470 new confirmed patients in the metropolitan area are also the highest since the Corona 19 outbreak,” he said. “The metropolitan area has already exhibited Corona 19.”

He said: “Now it is a total crisis that it is difficult to determine how far the peak of the third epidemic will rise,” he said. “If it is the current trend, the pessimistic perspective that the number of confirmed cases per day exceeds 1,000 may become a reality.” Said.

Until the day before this month, the number of new confirmed cases per day is 451 → 511 → 540 → 629 → 583 → 631, and the number of confirmed cases skyrocketed to 600.

The government, which judged that the entire country was facing the corona pandemic19, imposed a reinforced social distancing at the national level for three weeks from the 8th.

The distance in the metropolitan area is 2.5 steps to prohibit meetings and events with more than 50 people and limit the use of multipurpose facilities as much as possible. In non-metropolitan areas, only packing and delivery is allowed regardless of time, and 5 types of entertainment facilities are closed. It is updated in two stages.

Deputy Director General Park said: “If the spread of the metropolitan area is not detected in stage 2.5, an explosive epidemic throughout the country will become a reality and lead to the collapse of the medical system, so that the national adjustment will be inevitable. in three stages is inevitable. ” And he appealed.

He said: “The next three weeks will be an important opportunity to decide whether or not to break the Corona 19 explosion, and it will be a difficult obstacle.” He emphasized.

In preparation for the national Corona 19 pandemic, the script reviewed the quarantine situation and medical response by region on this day, and discussed ways to expand preventive diagnostic tests for early detection of patients.

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