With the new semester coming a month ahead, the quarantine authorities have announced that they will assess the risk of Corona 19 in the lower grades of elementary school.
At a regular briefing today (23rd), Kwon Jun-wook, head of the 2nd vice president of the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters, said, "I will take an active role in evaluating the risk in detail and discussing the direction of quarantine." It.
Deputy Head of Headquarters Kwon mentioned today that Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun ordered the Ministry of Education to review school plans for the new semester, and said, "The quarantine authorities will also consult with the education authorities and related experts."
Deputy Head Kwon explained, "If you look at the contents of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s announcement of the Corona 19 outbreak in schools, children and adolescents make up about 30% of the world's population, but about 8% of the outbreak of Corona 19" I did.
"The WHO announced that the scale of transmission and the infectivity, etc., are relatively lower in children under the age of 10," he said.
He added, "However, among these contents, some point out that youths, especially 16-18 years old, in Korea, junior high and high schools have more group occurrences than elementary schools."
In conclusion, he said, "In conclusion, the WHO talked about that the school has not become a large-scale group infectious environment especially in elementary schools, except for situations where the quarantine regulations are not properly followed."
Earlier, the quarantine authorities recently published a paper in the Journal of the Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, stating that the effect of the'stop school' measures to curb the spread of Corona 19 infection is insignificant and the social burden is high.
In this paper, Eun-kyung Chung, Director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, participated as a co-author.
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