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number of confirmed cases per day is now approaching 200, but the authorities' response is a little different from before.



In August, when the number of confirmed cases increased through the Gwanghwamun rally, the level of quarantine measures was raised, but this time, the reason for this was not, and this part was analyzed by medical reporter Cho Dong-chan.



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In August, although the number of corona19 patients surged mainly at specific meetings such as Sarangjeil Church and Gwanghwamun rally, the rate of unknown infection route soared to 26.4% beyond the target of 20%.



In this case, even if a large group infection was blocked, it was impossible to guarantee an overall suppression of the spread, requiring strong social distancing.



However, the proportion of patients who did not know the route of infection in the last two weeks was 13.7%, which is about half of those at the time.



Therefore, authorities believe that blocking the chain of small-scale infections is a priority over strong national quarantine measures.



Recently, opinions have changed in countries around the world that reducing the number of deaths is more important than the number of patients.



Currently, there are about 50 patients with gastric and severe illness, which is within the scope of our medical system.



In a recent domestic study, the most dangerous variable for Korean COVID-19 death was people over 80 years of age or people with diabetes.



It is also characterized by a higher fatality rate in group infections than in individual contact infections and in men than in women.



This means that preventing cases of infection in groups from high-risk groups rather than preventing individual infections of healthy people can lower the corona19 fatality rate.



[Myung-Don Oh/Chairman of the Central Clinical Committee for New Infectious Diseases: At some point, the strategy for preventing the spread of individual spreads will no longer work, so it is time to modify the strategy.

The timing of the strategy correction has already come.]



However, if the number of patients explodes, the number of patients with gastric and severe diseases will increase.



(Video editing: Park Jin-hoon)