The government said that it is discussing a plan to change the COVID-19 quarantine system in a step-by-step direction to restore daily life.



However, we decided that stabilizing the current fashion scale is the first thing to do.



There is a lot of interest in 'with Corona', which focuses on the management of patients with severe cases rather than suppression of confirmed cases, but to review this, it is necessary to contain the spread of Corona 19 to an appropriate level.



Son Yeong-rae, head of the social strategy division of the Central Accident Remediation Headquarters (Jung Su-bon), said in a briefing session with reporters on the 6th, "We are discussing with the term 'step-by-step recovery of daily life' when discussing internally at the government level." I did.



"The government tries to avoid using the term 'with Corona' as much as possible within the government," Son explained.



He was particularly concerned, saying, "The term With Corona itself is sometimes expressed to mean eliminating 'social distancing' without worrying about the confirmed person, so I think there is a problem that the tension in quarantine is lowered."



Director Sohn mentioned that 'prerequisites' must be met first in order to discuss how to restore normal life in stages.



"It is an important prerequisite for the scale of the epidemic to stabilize a little more for at least September in order to review the recovery plan," he said."I am concerned that the tension will drop as the focus is on the transition to the quarantine system rather than these prerequisites," he pointed out.



“Currently, if you look at the utilization rate of hospital beds or intensive care units, it is about 60 to 70 percent, but if an atmosphere of easing quarantine is created in this situation, the scale of the epidemic will increase and there is a risk that it will directly lead to problems such as a shortage of wards and poor response of the medical system. ' he exaggerated.



In fact, if you look at the recent increase in the number of confirmed cases, there is a slight downward trend, but the situation is still unstable.



Director Sohn said, "If you look at the trend, non-metropolitan areas tend to decrease slightly, but metropolitan areas tend to increase slightly.



He said, "Considering the situation in which the 'fourth epidemic' was amplified as the quarantine tension relaxed much more than expected in the process of reorganizing the quarantine system in June, how much (fashion) control are you maintaining while maintaining the quarantine tension this month? It's pretty important," he said.



“The step-by-step recovery plan should be gradually and step-by-step while expanding vaccinations and falling hospitalization, severity, and mortality rates,” he said. added.



"The government is thinking that it is necessary to gradually adjust the quarantine system over a long period of time," Son said.



“So far, no country in the world has been able to create a system that completely eases the quarantine system to a level similar to that of daily life, while at the same time managing the death toll below the seasonal flu death (occurrence) level,” Sohn said. It will require considerable discussion and deliberation.”



Meanwhile, Chairman Son said that he would achieve the goal of completing the first vaccination for 70% of the nation, that is, about 36 million people, before the Chuseok holiday.



He said, "The Moderna vaccine is scheduled to arrive this afternoon, with 2552,000 doses." He said, "We have enough supplies to achieve the goal of achieving 70% before Chuseok (the first inoculation target), and it is difficult to achieve even when looking at the reservation status. I don't think so," he said.