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next month, self-quarantine will be exempted depending on the purpose if you enter the country after getting vaccinated from another country. But I'm worried about the mutated virus. In particular, in the UK, the number of confirmed cases of the Indian mutant virus is increasing recently, and there are voices of concern as it is included in the self-isolation exemption list.



This is Cho Dong-chan, a medical reporter.



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UK, 61.8% of the total population has completed the first dose.



The number of daily confirmed cases, which exceeded 60,000, decreased to 2,500, and recently the number of daily confirmed cases has risen to 7,500.



The cause was delta, or Indian mutation.



More than 90% of new infections were affected, and the transmission power was 60% and the severity of the virus was 2.7 times higher than that of the existing virus.



The UK is trying to postpone the time to take off the mask, but Korea did not include the UK as a country with mutations.



If a person who has been vaccinated comes to Korea from the UK, he/she is exempt from self-quarantine.



[Park Min-jung / Gangseo-gu, Seoul: Actually, I don’t think it makes sense. The vaccine is also completely finished (because it is not yet complete.)]



[Jang Hanssem/Gangseo-gu, Seoul: If the (domestic vaccination rate) is 80% or higher, I honestly think it is safe.] The



quarantine authorities have 134 countries with mutations

.

, it cannot be opened in terms of fashion, so it is a position to see whether each country is good at mutation control.



Even though the UK has more than 7,000 confirmed cases a day, the daily death toll continues to be in the single digits.



Indian mutations are well controlled, so that's okay.



In fact, an analysis of 33,000 people infected with the mutant in India found that 66% were unvaccinated, and 30 out of 42 and 71% were unvaccinated or had only been vaccinated.



However, unlike the UK, the vaccination rate in Korea is only 23%.



Even if the domestic vaccination rate is low, some argue that we should be cautious about exempting self-isolation until 50%.



The quarantine authorities said they will discuss whether to maintain the self-quarantine exemption for those arriving from the UK and India as they monitor mutation-related immigration every week.



(Video editing: Yong-Hwa Jung, VJ: Se-Kwan Oh)