(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The risk of the epidemic in South Korea has risen by two levels in the past week, the situation may continue to deteriorate
China News Service, Seoul, November 22 (Reporter Liu Xu) The South Korean Central Anti-epidemic Countermeasures Headquarters announced on the 22nd local time the results of the risk assessment of the new crown epidemic in the past week, showing that the national epidemic risk in South Korea is at a "high" level. The capital area and others The regions are "very high" and "medium" levels.
According to Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean epidemic prevention department, after consulting the epidemic prevention medical subcommittee, evaluates the risk of the epidemic every week, from low to high in order of "very low", "low", "medium", "high" and "high".
On the 1st of this month, South Korea launched the epidemic prevention model of "recovering daily life in stages".
Since then, the weekly epidemic risk has gradually increased. In the past week (November 14-20), the epidemic risk in the capital and other regions has increased by two levels compared with the same period in the previous week.
Taking into account the recent sharp increase in new cases in a single day, coupled with the high proportion of confirmed cases over 60 years old, the current increase in new cases is likely to continue for some time.
The South Korean epidemic prevention department assessed the risk level based on 17 indicators in three areas: response capacity, epidemic situation, and vaccination. Most of the indicators have deteriorated in the past week.
In terms of response capacity, the national average utilization rate of critically ill beds has increased to 62.6%, the utilization rate of hospital beds in the metropolitan area has risen to 77%, and that in other regions has also increased to 40.1%; in terms of the epidemic situation, the average number of new cases in the past week has increased from 2,172 in the previous week. To 2733 cases, the number of new cases in the metropolitan area soared by 27% to a record high, and critically ill cases continued to increase. In terms of vaccination, the rate of booster vaccination for people over 60 years old rose slightly to 7.5% from the previous week, but still At a low level.
According to data from South Korea’s Central Anti-epidemic Countermeasures Headquarters on the 22nd, as of 0:00 that day, South Korea had 2827 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia compared with the previous day, and a total of 418,252 confirmed cases.
The number of new cases in a single day hit a record on Sunday.
On the same day, kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in South Korea's metropolitan area fully resumed offline teaching.
Some opinions predict that the epidemic situation in South Korea may further intensify.
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