"More than 80% of Beijing's population is infected"... Chinese emergency room

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reason we are raising the quarantine threshold like this is because the number of corona patients continues to increase in China.

It is estimated that the proportion of infected people in Beijing, the capital city, has exceeded 80%, but correspondent Kim Ji-seong in Beijing reports.

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A hospital in Tianjin, adjacent to Beijing.

The emergency room has no room to even step foot in the rush of patients.

Funeral home shortages have spread across China.

Quarantine facilities for those infected with Corona 19 have been turned into morgues or funeral halls, and there are places where mourners are lined up one after another as residents die at the same time.

While the Chinese government has not disclosed daily infection statistics since the 25th, estimates have been made that more than 80% of Beijing's 21 million people have already been infected.

Omicron BF.7, which is spreading in Beijing, is the most contagious among the Corona 19 mutations that have appeared so far.

[Zeng Guang / Former Chief Scientist, National Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Beijing's infection rate has already exceeded 80%, or it may be even higher.]

Following the United States and Japan, Italy, India, and Taiwan have issued warnings against travelers arriving from China for COVID-19. Inspections were made mandatory, and the Taiwan Free Times reported that North Korea also decided to quarantine and observe entrants from China for 30 days.

On the other hand, the mood of the EU is different.

It is a position that the discussion will continue, saying that strengthening quarantine measures at the European Union level is not necessary.

China is protesting that it is discrimination against China, saying that no new variants have been found other than the Omicron submutation.

The state-run Global Times set the day that "only the economies of those countries will be damaged."

China, which was the only major country in the world to lock the bar, is now in the exact opposite situation demanding that other countries open its borders.

(Video coverage: Choi Deok-hyun, video editing: Kim Ho-jin, CG: Ban So-hee)

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Let's take a look at our quarantine reporter Shin Yong-sik regarding the Chinese corona situation.

[Reporter Shin Yong-sik: Today (30th), many measures have been announced.

Among them, even if you look at the two tests before and after entry, it is a more intensive measure than the US or Japan requiring one test.

It seems that China was conscious of the fact that it is the next country and that the number of corona patients increased rapidly because it did not prevent the inflow of the country early in the first year of Corona

2020.]

is a very large country.

Because China is the first to be affected by China in 2020.]

[Reporter Shin Yong-sik: That's right.

That's one of the reasons the government has come up with high-intensity measures.

Prime Minister Han Deok-soo also pointed out that if the Chinese situation leads to domestic transmission, the relaxation of indoor masks may be delayed than expected.

It is necessary to prevent the influx of mutations that did not exist in Korea and change the corona epidemic, but fortunately, as a result of analysis in Korea or Italy, it was confirmed that there is nothing new.]

[Reporter Shin Yong-sik: Today, the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety gathered to discuss measures to prevent hoarding.

Early next week, we decided to hold a committee to set the amount of cold medicine that can be sold at a pharmacy at a time, and strengthen export inspections to block smuggling.]

(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, Video editing: Lee So-young)

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