<Anchor> What the



quarantine authorities are most worried about is that the number of confirmed patients under 40 is increasing.

There is also a study showing that the number of COVID-19 patients in the younger population increased and the number of older patients increased after about nine days, but the quarantine authorities warned that if the situation continues, there could be close to 400 confirmed cases a day in four weeks.



This news is from Nam Joo-hyun.



<Reporter> As



a result of analyzing the distribution of Corona 19 patients in the southern United States for three months from June by the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States, the number of infections in patients in their 20s and 30s increased, and the rate of positive tests in their 60s or more increased after about 9 days. It was investigated.



CDC believes that young people who are asymptomatic or lightly ill, have a high risk of spreading the virus to high-risk groups such as the elderly without their knowledge.



[Jung-sik Eom/Professor of Infectious Medicine, Gachon University Gil Hospital: The outbreak occurs first, and infections in high-risk groups occur in foreign countries.]



Recently, the proportion of patients under 40s in Korea is high. Lost.

In the last 4 weeks, the rate of under 40s has increased significantly from 38.3% in the previous 4 weeks to 49.1%.



Authorities believe that this is because young people who do not show symptoms or are relatively lightly ill and have been found less have been recently classified as contacts at family and acquaintance groups and are being examined a lot.



[Eun-kyung Jung/Director of the Korea Disease Control Center: I think there is a problem of proportion and absolute scale of the proportion of young adults.

There is clearly a need to reinforce diagnostic tests and social distancing (for young people)…

.]



Health officials have warned that if the current situation persists, there could be close to 400 confirmed cases a day in four weeks.



Since we are at a crossroads as to whether the number of patients will grow gently or rapidly as our medical capabilities can handle, the authorities believe that we can prevent the shortage of critically ill beds by raising the social distancing stage and breaking the epidemic.



(Video coverage: Hong Jong-soo, video editing: Lee Seung-hee)  



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