China News Service, February 24. According to comprehensive Korean media reports, the number of newly confirmed cases of the new crown in South Korea exceeded 170,000 for two consecutive days.
The peak forecast for the current round of the pandemic is also increasing, with some studies predicting a maximum of more than 330,000 cases, higher than the previous forecast of a maximum of 270,000 cases.
South Korea's Central Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters reported on the 24th that as of 0:00 that day, South Korea had added 170,016 new confirmed cases of new crown compared with 0:00 the previous day, with a total of 2,499,188 confirmed cases.
Data map: In Seoul, South Korea, medical staff test citizens for the new crown virus.
Judging from the trend of confirmed cases, South Korea has accumulated more than 2 million cases, which took more than two years in total, and more than half of them were confirmed cases that appeared in the last half month.
In late January, the Omicron mutant strain, which spreads 2 to 3 times faster than the delta mutant strain, became the main epidemic strain in South Korea, and the number of confirmed cases increased geometrically in a short period of time.
However, the Korean epidemic prevention department pointed out that despite the rapid spread of infection, the rate of critically ill patients and the fatality rate are significantly lower than in the past, so there is no need to panic.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in posted on social networking sites on the 23rd that the mortality rate of people under the age of 60 who have completed the third dose of the new crown vaccine so far is zero, and he called on the people to actively receive the booster shot.
Data map: South Korean President Moon Jae-in is vaccinated.
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Wen Zaiyin said that as long as people under the age of 60 complete the third dose of vaccination, the possibility of death due to infection with the "Omicron" variant strain is almost zero, which means that the risk of death is extremely low.
Therefore, in response to the Omicron epidemic, the booster vaccination is particularly important.
Moon Jae-in also introduced the analysis results of the Department of Disease Management that for unvaccinated people, the fatality rate of Omicron is more than five times that of seasonal influenza, but the mortality rate of people who have completed the third vaccination is similar to that of influenza. .