The quarantine authorities said that the corona19 epidemic, centered on the metropolitan area, was worse than during the first pandemic in Daegu and Gyeongbuk earlier this year.
Joon-wook Kwon, deputy head of the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters (Bang Dae-bon), said at a regular online briefing, "Compared with the last February-March epidemic in Daegu and Gyeongbuk, this epidemic has been in a more difficult situation."
The reason for the diagnosis was that "the population is larger in the metropolitan area and the spread of infection to other regions is easy when considering traffic volume and the like."
He also explained that "the number of patients occurring every day is a little more common in the metropolitan area than the epidemic of Daegu and Gyeongbuk since mid-late August."
General Manager Kwon said, "I think the spreading trend, which once rapidly increased to 400 people in late August, has been broken."
Regarding the development situation of the Corona 19 vaccine and treatment, Kwon said, "In the past, investment in these fields and interest in these fields was late and insufficient, so the current situation in which Korea is not at the forefront of the development of treatments and vaccines." Vaccines are science, and because they are directly connected to safety, it is an area that requires a long time.”
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