▲ Jung Eun-kyung, Head of Central Defense Countermeasure Headquarters


"If the current epidemic continues, the number of confirmed cases could increase from 800 to 2,000 per day next week. (Comply with the quarantine guidelines), I eagerly ask."

Today (28th), at the end of the briefing, the desperate appeal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Jung Eun-kyung, who is also the head of the Central Defense Response Headquarters, continued.

Jung said, "Recently, infectious disease modeling experts predicted the outbreak. If the current outbreak continues, the number of confirmed cases could increase by up to 2,000 per day next week."

So, he added, “A crisis situation in which the medical system could collapse due to an exponential increase in the number of confirmed cases that cannot be controlled if the epidemic situation is not controlled right now.” As the

corona spreading intensifies, the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters is over 2 pm The briefing continues every day

, and the intensity of urgency is increasing day by day in the message that Eun-kyung Jung and Deputy Director Kwon Joon-wook at the end of the briefing add as'last words' at the end of the briefing before moving on to the reporters and Q&A.


On the 25th, Vice Head of Headquarters Kwon Joon-wook said at the end of the briefing, "It may be difficult to recover daily life due to the collapse of the 7-month quarantine tower."

On the 24th, the day before, Jung Eun-kyung warned, "No one, including me, can be free from corona infection."

On the 21st, "Anywhere in the country, anyone can be infected" (Eun-kyung Jung), and on the 18th, "A bigger crisis than the Shincheonji Shinto group infection in the past February-March" (Jun-wook Kwon) was also included in the public appeal at the end of the briefing.

Headquarters general manager Eun-kyung Jung warned of the pandemic of 2,000 confirmed cases a day at a briefing today, and appealed, "The way to control Corona 19 is surprisingly simple."

In the next 10 days, you can reduce contact between people, stay at home, wear a mask, and keep a 2m distance.

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