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Since China announced that it will lift its strict corona quarantine policy, the number of patients continues to increase.

A study showed that the death toll could reach 1 million, and Koreans in China are also very concerned.



Correspondent Jeong Young-tae from Beijing delivered this information.



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As soon as the iron door outside the pharmacy opens, people who have been waiting in line enter.



Patients who come to the hospital with high fever are given fluids on the street outside the hospital due to lack of space, while transport cars are lined up on the driveway to the funeral home.



As the number of infections among medical staff soars, concerns about a medical crisis are also growing.



[Li Shuhua/Director, Guangzhou Women's and Children's Hospital, China: The number of patients is doubling from 100 to 200 and from 200 to 400 a day, so our medical team is nervous.



] , warned that the medical system would collapse and close to 1 million deaths would come out in case of full transition to with corona.



It is analyzed that without urgent measures such as large-scale 4th vaccination and securing treatment, the number of deaths per 1 million population will reach 684.



The problem is that the 3rd vaccination rate for 36 million people aged 80 years or older is still at 40%, and the 4th vaccination has just begun.



[Yang Zhijie / Resident of Shanghai, China: I was worried that the chronic disease would get worse after vaccination, so it didn't fit.

It seems that more zero-corona policies are still needed.] As



medicine hoarding continues across China, the number of confirmed cases among South Koreans has surged, putting an emergency in securing medicines.



The Korean Association has started distributing self-diagnosis kits and is promoting the distribution of household medicines, including fever reducers.



[Yeo Min-seo/Exchange student at Beijing University: (The delivery of self-diagnosis kits) has been delayed a lot, and it's very difficult to get medicine now.

It's good to be able to get it like this.]



Concerns are growing with the prospect that large-scale infections in a short period of time can cause new virus mutations.



(Video coverage: Ma Gyu, Video editing: Jung Yong-hwa)