<Anchor> While the
number of new corona19 confirmed patients in Korea fell to 47, 5 additional confirmed cases were added at the Busan Nursing Hospital, where more than 50 were confirmed.
It was negative on the first test, but when I tested it again, it was positive.
KNN reporter Minwook Kim reports.
<Reporter> As
a result of examining 198 patients and the staff who tested negative in the primary examination, 5 were positive.
There are 3 patients in their 80s and 2 staff admitted to the 2nd floor.
Of the 265 patients and workers in the hospital, 58 or 21.8% were confirmed.
By floor, the number of confirmed cases was highest on the second floor, where 47 people occurred, and 10 on the third floor.
The situation is serious, but the medical staff and caregivers are barely holding on.
In particular, the number of nursing staff on the second floor, where there are many confirmed cases, is very short.
[Carer company official: The person who works right now is too hard to work until today (he said.)]
At the moment, it is best to quickly filter out confirmed patients through repeated tests.
[Ahn Byung-seon/Busan City Citizens' Prevention Promotion Director: Because there is a very high risk, we frequently test and quickly find patients early...
.] It
is also a problem to maintain cohort quarantine of high-risk contacts.
In Qingdao Daenam Hospital, which was quarantined in a cohort in February, 98% of hospitalized patients in the ward eventually became infected.
[Son Hyun-jin/Professor of the Department of Preventive Medicine, Dong-A University Medical School: I have a plausible (name) as the same group quarantine (cohort quarantine), but in fact, people inside are left in a dangerous state for the safety of people outside. It's the same as doing.]
Health authorities plan to consider moving inpatients to other hospitals.