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It will be one year tomorrow (the 20th) after the first corona19 patient appeared in Korea.
I met the medical staff who have been fighting the virus for a year and listened to the story of how they have crossed the hurdles and how they are now.
Reporters Deokki Yoo, Reporter Park Chan-geun, and Reporter No.
<Reporter Deokki Yoo> The
first
corona19
confirmed was a Chinese woman who entered Incheon Airport from Wuhan, China.
[Kim Kyung-mi/Incheon Medical Center Nurse: Because we are the first.
I think I was a little nervous
because it was a
new disease.]
Because of the lack of information about Corona 19,
I
was a cautious partner for medical staff.
[Kim Jin-yong / Manager of Infection Internal Medicine, Incheon Metropolitan City Medical Center: (Respiratory virus infection) I haven't seen this symptom often for a long time.]
The second confirmed case, a Korean man in his 50s, became the first domestic cure 13 days after treatment.
[Jin Bum-sik/National Medical Center Infectious Internal Medicine Specialist: There was a side that applied MERS' quarantine release criteria.
Because it was the same coronavirus...
]
A year has passed, but COVID-19 treatment is still difficult.
[Jin Bum-sik/National Medical Center Infectious Internal Medicine Specialist: Antiviral administration was administered at that time, but in fact the drug was later found to have no therapeutic effect.
So it's a medicine I don't use now.
In my opinion, a breakthrough treatment has not yet been introduced.]
<Reporter Park Chan-geun> The
first large-scale infection started in Daegu last February.
Daegu Dongsan Hospital was designated as the first hospital dedicated to Corona 19.
Now it is sometimes used as a conference room, but at that time it was a control room that managed medical staff.
This empty room was a common room where weary medical staff gathered to relieve hunger or encourage each other.
Medical staff remember the day when it became the first dedicated hospital.
[Kim Gyeong-ran/Daegu Dongsan Hospital nurse: It was closed.
that day.
I just washed my hair and barely ran in time.]
[Lee Ji-yeon/Daegu Dongsan Hospital Infection Control Dept.: Daegu really, not only our hospital, but the whole area was in war.
The number of patients also increased so rapidly, and there was no manpower.] For
one year of Corona 19, the tough fight still continues.
[Lee Ji-yeon/Director of Infection Control Department, Dongsan Hospital in Daegu: (Recently), more than 100 patients have been hospitalized continuously, to our hospital.
<Reporter Noh Dong-gyu>
[Ivan Watson/CNN reporter (March 2 of last year): I am going to see an innovative diagnostic method.] The
so-
called'drive-
through test' installed by the world was first started in late February last year.
It came out of a sense of urgency to quickly perform diagnostic tests while preventing infection of medical personnel and subjects.
Similar to drive-through,'walk-through', which inspects people walking by in a negative pressure space, also appeared for the first time in Korea.
[Ahn Yeo-Hyun / Medical Officer (Busan Nam-gu Public Health Center): When using in a negative pressure tent, one person can be tested every 30 to 40 minutes, and when using a walk-through booth, one person is tested every 5 minutes until the disinfection time is exhausted. You can do it.]
<Reporter Deokki Yoo>
Following the first and second pandemic, the third pandemic began in mid-November last year.
As the number of confirmed patients rose to the level of 1,000 a day, beds were shortened again, and a hospital in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, released all 220 beds.
[Director Kim Byeong-geun/Pyeongtaek Park Ae Hospital: Patients who need to be admitted to hospitals all over the country are wandering because they have no place to go.
Then somebody should do it, right?]
Many medical staff joined and volunteers gathered.
[Park Hye-jin/Pyeongtaek Park-
ae
Hospital nurse: If I help a little, will it be resolved soon?]
[Kwak Hyung-jun/Neurosurgeon, Volunteer: After the 3rd corona wave started,'Ah...
I thought,'This is really dangerous.']
I expect to see my first vaccination around next month.
The medical staff who are guarding the field today are hoping that this year will be a turning point in the fight against Corona 19.
(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won·Kim Tae-hoon, video editing: Park Ji-in, VJ: Jeong Young-sam·Kimcho-ah, CG: Hong Seong-yong· Choi Jae-young· Lee Ye-jeong· Seong Jae-eun· Jeong Si-won)
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