▲ Writer Seung-yeon Cho, Incheon Medical Center (left) and Kim Jin-yong, Director of Infectious Medicine
The first patient in Korea who was diagnosed with a new type of coronavirus infection (new corona) and released from the hospital told the medical staff that he wanted to return to Wuhan, China, today (6th).
Kim Jin-Yong, chief of the Department of Infection and Internal Medicine, Incheon Medical Center, met with the reporters after deciding to isolate quarantine 1 today. Explained.
Kim added, "I was sorry that the first diagnosis was not good, and I was sorry that only I was well treated."
Confirmation No. 1, a 35-year-old Chinese woman, told her reporters today that she would be interviewed by South Korean journalists after the quarantine was lifted.
Accordingly, Kim and others met with the reporters and informed them about the treatment progress of the first confirmation.
The first confirmed person arrived in Wuhan, China on the 19th of last month, and was quarantined at Incheon Medical Center for the first time in Korea.
Three days after being admitted to Incheon Medical Center, respiratory symptoms developed and fever lasted for 10 days.
From the first week of hospitalization, I supplemented with oxygen, but until the end of the week, symptoms gradually improved and were released after 180,000 days of isolation.
Kim explained that although the first confirmed person was released from containment, he is expected to leave the negative pressure room after undergoing admiral procedures.
"I thought enough and agreed with the Central Clinical Committee," he said. "The committee decided unanimously."
Incheon Medical Center told Clinic 1 that he had prescribed Caletra, the same anti-viral drug that he used for Clinic 2, who was discharged yesterday.
But Kim says it is difficult to say that Kaletra was effective in treating the new corona.
"I'm seeing a positive view of the same treatment," he said. "I think a lot of Chinese doctors are using it."
Kim commented that the number one confirmed seemed to be severe when compared to other new corona confirmers in Korea.
He then explained carefully that future data could accumulate that the new corona is not a horrible disease.
"Clinicians are not open to the public, but only a few cases were mild," he said. "Patient 1 believes that the oxygen demand was in the" severe. "
"I expect that as more and more decommissioners and data accumulate, it may turn out that the new corona is not a scary disease."
Meanwhile, the patient also thanked the Korean medical staff for treating him yesterday.
(Photo: Incheon Photocooperative Foundation, Cho Seung-yeon, Director of Incheon Medical Center, Yonhap News)