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The government's specific goal is to drop as many as 50 people per day. The main reason is that even the most serious patients are able to receive intensive treatment and minimize death. And even if people return to the same life as before, the calculation that 50 people a day can control can stand.

Reporter Han Se-hyun will explain in more detail.

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The government has officially declared that it is virtually impossible to end the Corona 19 in a short period of time.

It is a new type of infectious disease that most people do not have immunity and the propagation power is very high, so long-term war is inevitable.

[Park Neung-Hoo / Ministry of Health and Welfare: This fight is unlikely to end in a short time, and some scholars expect months to years in the short term.]

The government announced that it would reduce the number of new confirmed persons per day, currently around 100, to around 50 by extending the 'Strength of High-Strength Social Distance'.

Considering that the proportion of patients in the corona 19 stomach is around 5%, this is a stable treatment for patients without overloading the medical system.

[Taeho Yoon / Head of the Center for Interpretation of Central Accident Remediation Headquarters: If the intensive care unit of about 100 beds is maintained, it is judged that the number of 50 confirmed patients per day is sufficient to withstand even within the current medical system ... .]

At the same time, the goal was to reduce the percentage of patients with unknown infection paths by 5% or less and the quarantine patients by half.

When these three goals are achieved, it is an explanation that we will turn to 'life prevention', where daily life and prevention are harmonized.

However, there are also concerns that in the next two weeks, the confirmed person may not decrease as much as the target, or may increase again after switching to life prevention.

The government has not ruled out the possibility of further extension of high-intensity social distance, saying it will check the situation again in two weeks.

(Video coverage: Jeong Sung-hwa, video editing: Jang Hyun-ki)

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