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Of the people who had Corona 19 in Korea, half of them are now completely cured. The cumulative confirmatory number was around 9,500 by today (28th), but the number of people who had been cured and released from quarantine exceeded 4811, the number of patients being treated for the first time to date. It can be said that the medical system has surpassed the heights, but the worry is that the fatality rate of death among definite diagnoses continues to rise.

Reporter Sunghoon Lee analyzed what areas to focus on in order to solve this.

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The World Health Organization's WHO declared corona19's global pandemic on the 12th.

Since then, the number of confirmed patients receiving a cure has steadily increased and the number of new confirmed patients has slowed, and now one out of two confirmed patients has returned to their daily lives.

The number of patients our medical system has to deal with is also decreasing.

[Taeho Yoon / General Director of Prevention, Central Accident Remediation Headquarters: Although there is still a long way to go, the cure rate of 50% is a small achievement that everyone in our society can celebrate together.]

The problem is the rising mortality rate.

While the fatality rate among all confirmed patients rose to 1.52%, the fatality rate in the 70s soared to 6.49% and the fatality rate in the 80s to 16.2%.

There are still 79 more severely ill patients, including those with gastrointestinal gastrointestinal ailments.

[Kwon Joon-wook / Deputy General Manager, Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters: A lot of deaths are occurring steadily, especially in Daegu, a special management area, centered on such high-risk groups with a high age or at the same time having underlying diseases ... .]

The most important thing to lower the fatality rate is high-risk management.

Quarantine officials say they will focus on managing the collective facilities in which elderly patients with underlying diseases such as nursing homes and nursing homes stay, and also support the cost of preventing infection.

(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Park player)