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Health authorities believe that the spread of Corona 19 is faster than the current rate of quarantine.
So, after seeing the trend of confirmed cases this weekend, we are going to decide whether to adjust the distancing step.
Dongchan Cho is a medical reporter.
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official from the quarantine authorities analyzed that the spread of Corona 19 in December was the highest this year.
The number of confirmed cases compared to the number of tests, that is, the positive rate, can be used to estimate the spread. Although the number of tests exceeded 20,000 from December 1st to today (4th), the positive rate exceeded 2% for four consecutive days.
In this case, only August 27, when the second epidemic peaked, and the problem is that social distancing effect appeared at the time, but this time it is not.
The concerns of the quarantine authorities are here.
The opinion that it should be immediately upgraded to the 2.5 or 3 stage and the opinion that if the effect of the second stage of social distancing does not appear, even if the stage is raised, the effect of suppressing the infection cannot be guaranteed.
A member of the Central Clinical Committee for New Infectious Diseases analyzed that the current rate of quarantine is less than half the rate of the spread of Corona 19.
In a recent US study, it was found that the current mass test-isolation alone cannot suppress the spread of Corona 19, but it was analyzed that it took 2 to 3 days to know the test result, while the initial without symptoms and the infectious power was large.
However, the rate of increase in patients with gastric and severe diseases in Korea is not yet high.
The Korean Medical Association said that while urgently preparing measures for critically ill patients, the center of quarantine should shift from diagnosis and isolation to treatment and infection control.
(Video editing: Kim Ho-jin)