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In today's (20th) Special 8 o'clock news, we will share with the news reporter Cho Dong-chan and medical news reporters from time to time.

Q. What happened to the first death you were concerned about?

[Jo Dong-chan / medical journalist (specialist): Yes, it is. The deceased is a male born in 57 years, so he is in his early sixties. 64 or 65 years old. Qingdao Daenam Hospital, where the deceased was hospitalized, we checked and it is estimated that two mental health doctors have been treated and have a closed ward. And recently, he had been treated for high fever and pneumonia, so he had corona19. Health officials said yesterday's death and today's diagnosis.

It may take some time to see if you have died of corona 19 or if you have a different illness and have been identified with OBirac. It's an estimate for now. The Association for Mental Health Medicine believes that a hospital with only a psychiatrist will be converted to a hospital with a medical doctor if there is a serious underlying disease, so it has died of another underlying disease and that corona 19 has been detected by Obirak. Health authorities have just sent a text message saying that pneumonia is now the cause of death. Again, it's still an estimate. Normally, if you have a serious underlying disease in a psychiatric hospital, you may be transferred to another hospital.

However, it is known that he has suffered from schizophrenia, but if the symptoms of schizophrenia are severe, he may be late to find serious symptoms because of poor expression. There are also medicines that lower white blood cell counts, so you should look at their relationship. And although it hasn't been confirmed yet, the patient is called alcohol abuse, or alcoholism. In this case, the liver function was so poor that it could have been vulnerable to Corona19.

But now two specialists are in self-containment, so it's hard to get in touch with the society right now. This part will be repeated once confirmed. Although the current clues seem more likely to corona19, the cause of death has to be scrutinized to various other possibilities, so we will tell you as soon as it is confirmed.]

Q. Yesterday, the number of patients surged, even deaths came out…

[Jo Dong-chan / medical journalist (specialist): The first death in Korea came out, it is a pity. And today at the health authorities, this morning's expert meeting, I came out at the meeting that this time the number of patients in Korea also has to prepare for the deaths. But I'm telling you that the first death in Korea, Corona 19 has a low mortality rate. It is not a fatal occurrence that would change the fact that it is low.

China, with more than 2,000 deaths, is lower than the mortality rate of MERS and SARS. Other countries are much lower. But the mortality rate is higher than the flu. Especially for older and chronically ill patients, unreliable results may occur. Two deaths in Japan were also older than 80 years old. To keep the number of patients from falling sharply. In particular, we should try to prevent the elderly and the underlying disease from becoming infected. To do that, I will keep telling you, but you should be less infected at the hospital. It is important to keep it to a minimum.]

▶ The first 'Corona 19' death in Korea 63 year old male
▶ Confirmation of 15 people over two days including the dead. Qingdao Daenam Hospital closed