Only 500 people waiting at home with confirmed confirmation in the metropolitan area … 76% bed operation rate “Limit reached”

Entry 2020.12.10 15:45 | Revision 2020.12.10 15:49

Waiting period From one day to three days per region
3 additional life treatment centers opened this week … “The problem of waiting will be solved”

With the number of new confirmed coronavirus infections surpassing 600 each day, more and more patients are waiting at home without going to life treatment centers or hospitals, even after being confirmed. There is concern that the longer the confirmed patient waits at home, the more infections will increase among their families.

According to the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters, at 0 o’clock on the 10th, there were 682 new cases in Korea. After 9 (686), which recorded the highest number of confirmed cases since February, the number reached 700 a year. Local infections are 646, which represents 94% of all confirmed cases. Unlike last February, when a group infection occurred at Shincheonji Daegu Church, sporadic infections continue across the country.

Many of the people who have been diagnosed with new cases are relatives. After one of the family members is confirmed, other family members living together are confirmed one after another. On the 9th, 12 additional confirmed patients came out in Mapo-gu, Seoul, of which more than half of them, 7 people, are family-related infections. Two out of five new cases confirmed in Geumcheon-gu on the same day were also confirmed as family-related infections.

The problem is that people who have been diagnosed with coronavirus due to overload of the medical system are waiting longer at home. The allocation of hospitals or life treatment centers is being delayed and waiting times vary from one day to three days in each region. The family of a person who has been deemed confirmed should be classified as close contact and self-quarantine, but quarantine rules, such as the prohibition of contact with the confirmed person, are left to the individual.

At 0 o’clock on this day, 157 of the 251 new patients confirmed the day before were not assigned to hospitals or life treatment centers. Compared to 125 the day before, more than 30 people increased. At 0 o’clock on day 9, 125 of the 262 confirmed patients on day 8 were awaiting a hospital or home life treatment center assignment.

“Yesterday there were about 506 patients waiting at home in the metropolitan area, and there are many areas in Gyeonggi,” said Isran, head of the patient bed management team at the Central Accident Control Center. It takes about a day and I try not to go any further. ”

The situation in Gyeonggi-do is more serious. In Gyeonggi-do, 91.6% of the new confirmed cases, or 197, were not assigned to hospitals or life treatment centers the day before. The number of confirmed patients awaiting bed assignment in the province was 341, an increase of 59 over the previous day (282). The cumulative number of confirmed patients waiting at home from day 7 to today ranges from 366 to 396 to 282 to 341 and 300.

Civil anxiety continues online. “If the number of people waiting at home increases, the family is more dangerous. The answer is that they don’t catch us.” I can’t do this or that. ”

Due to the shortage of beds, the waiting time at home for confirmed patients is expected to be longer. As of the 9th, the hospital bed utilization rate for hospitals dedicated to infectious diseases in the metropolitan area was 75.6% and in Seoul, 83%. From the day before, 51 beds can be admitted for patients with severe or severe gastric diseases, with only five beds left in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Incheon. Of the non-metropolitan areas, only one remains in Daejeon, Chungnam and Jeonnam.

The government plans to increase the number of dedicated treatment beds for critically ill patients to 308 by the 20th and 331 by the end of the year to solve the problem of bed shortages. The life treatment centers are also scheduled to open three more this week. Yoon Tae-ho, head of the Accident Control Headquarters, said in a briefing on the 9th: “If we expand the life treatment center, the case of waiting more than a day will be solved,” he said.