<Anchor> With the
spread of the corona virus, the number of patients with severe symptoms is increasing, especially among the elderly, and the death toll is increasing due to the lack of hospital beds. It has nearly tripled in one month. As there is no clear way right now, I am more concerned because this trend is bound to continue for the time being.
Reporter Park Soo-jin.
<Reporter> In
Daejeon, cluster infections centered around nursing facilities, and so far, 259 confirmed cases have been reported in 8 nursing hospitals and facilities.
197, or 76% of all confirmed cases, are elderly people in their 70s or older.
The number of confirmed cases continues to rise, but the route of infection is unknown.
[Daejeon city official: As the infection effect has decreased, it seems that there are already a lot of breakthroughs before the additional vaccination. There's no other way to explain it other than that... .] The
national corona risk was evaluated as 'very high', the highest level for two weeks in a row, and quarantine authorities are most concerned about the increasing number of severe cases and deaths among the elderly.
In fact, the number of patients with gastritis in the elderly has increased steadily over the past five weeks, reaching 84% of all patients, and the elderly account for 96% of the deaths.
As the number of elderly patients increases, the overall increase in severe cases and deaths will inevitably prolong.
The daily death toll was the highest at 70 on the 4th, but if you look at the monthly trend, it nearly tripled from 126 in the first week of November to 317 last week.
This is why quarantine authorities strongly recommend that the elderly repeatedly receive booster vaccinations.
[Lee, Sang - Won / Central Defense Headquarters epidemiological analysis renovated: high-risk age groups are, we hope you'll mark the third vaccination as soon as suitable as possible due to the high far above the possibility of severe hospitalized, even if you that infect the same disease;
but first vaccination Compared to 90% of the elderly in nursing hospitals and facilities that started this, the general elderly population is only in the 20% range, so more effective measures to induce additional vaccination are needed.