“It appears that the number of deaths will continue to rise … Concerns about a series of confirmed patients aged 60 and over”

Check-in 2020.08.29 16:29

Quarantine authorities predicted that the recent trend of rising deaths will continue due to the rapid spread of Corona 19 infection and the age of confirmed patients.

In a briefing held at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Osong, Chungbuk on the 29th, Joon-wook Kwon, deputy director of the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters (Bang Dae-bon), said: “This epidemic in the metropolitan area it has many risk groups and it is large. ” “The epidemiological investigation capacity is being tested as the case is also confirmed.” It is said that there are cases of death immediately after confirmation or confirmation of confirmation late after death.

Deputy Director General Kwon said: “Due to the large and rapid increase in the general outbreak, the frequency of deaths is frequent.” “The recent situation in the metropolitan area is similar to the explosive increase in Daegu and Gyeongbuk earlier this year.” He said: “By age, the high proportion of people aged 60 and over (diagnosed) is a very worrying situation,” he said. According to quarantine authorities, half of the confirmed cases related to the urban rally on Liberation Day on the 15th are over 60 years old.

Deputy General Manager Kwon said: “After about a week to 10 days after the patient’s outbreak, the number of patients with gastric / severe symptoms (development) and the size of the deaths generally increases after about a month.” We believe the trend will continue. “The number of severe and severe gastric patients continues to increase from the 21st to the present day from 18 to 29 to 31 to 37 to 42 to 46 to 58 to 64.

According to Bang Dae-bon, a total of 5 people died the day before. By age group, there is 1 person in their 60s, 1 person in their 70s, 2 people in their 80s, and 1 person in their 90s. By region, there were 4 in Gyeonggi and 1 in Seoul. The route of infection has not been identified in 3 out of 5 deaths. One of them is a contact person related to Woori First Church in Yongin. Also, 2 out of 5 were confirmed after death and 3 died during treatment after being confirmed.

Deputy Director General Kwon said: “The possibility of the number of deaths increasing in the near future and the outbreak of serious and severe patients that preceded it is an indicator that tests not only the COVID-19 quarantine, but also the capacity the medical system to respond. If so, pay more attention to personal quarantine. “