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Whether the increase in the number of patients is temporary or if there is another reason, you must first properly understand it so that you can devise appropriate quarantine measures.



Even among experts, opinions differ, but this was pointed out by medical reporter Cho Dong-chan.



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quarantine authorities cited the public's loose awareness as one of the reasons for the surge in patients.



[Yoon Tae-ho/Head of the Central Accident Control Headquarters: An analysis of the nationwide movement volume last weekend was about 60 million, an increase of 4% from the previous week.] The



surge in patients was most noticeable in the metropolitan area, but the amount of movement in the metropolitan area decreased by 6.3% from last week. It.



This means that it cannot be concluded that the number of confirmed cases has increased rapidly due to the increase in personal contact during the Lunar New Year holidays.



This is a graph of new confirmed patients in Korea.



The left side of the screen is the second pandemic in August and September last year, and the right side is the third pandemic from November last year to the present.



If you look at the trend of active patients with infectious history among confirmed cases, you can predict the spread more accurately, which has been close to the horizontal since the beginning of this month.



There is little change, which means we have to watch a little more.



There is also optimism that warmer weather can reduce respiratory symptoms and fall down.



However, the problem is that just before the third epidemic, the number of active patients in the horizontal section was about 1500, but now it is about 8,500, which is 6 times more than that.



Thousands of patients per day are expected if it gets worse with the 4th epidemic.



Israel, which has the highest vaccination rate in the world at 47%, is rapidly out of a tertiary epidemic, which studies show is due to its effectiveness rather than social distancing.



In Korea, where the introduction of vaccines is delayed, a realistic alternative is for individuals to thoroughly wear masks, regardless of whether the distance level is high or low.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Lee Hong-myeong)    



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