<Anchor> The
corona situation in Korea is also not good. Today (22nd), the number of new confirmed cases is expected to rise to 7,000 again. The number of critically ill patients again exceeded 1,000 in just one day. In particular, looking at the recent number of confirmed cases, the percentage of elementary school students who did not receive the vaccine is increasing significantly.
This is reporter Im Tae-woo.
<Reporter> As of
9 pm last night, the number of new confirmed cases nationwide was about 6,400, 2,200 more than the previous day.
If this trend continues, the number of new confirmed cases to be announced today is expected to be around 7,000.
Last week, the number of confirmed cases in elementary school students aged 7 to 12 was 4,325.
After 1,835 people at the end of last month, the number increased by 1,000 every week, more than doubling in three weeks.
Most children under the age of 11 are not vaccinated and are therefore unvaccinated.
[Lee Sang-won / Head of Epidemiological Investigation and Analysis Team, Central Quarantine Countermeasures Headquarters: The incidence rate is rapidly increasing in the age group under 12 years old. The risk of being infected with COVID-19 in the unvaccinated group is 2.3 times higher than in the second inoculation group... .] The
weekly confirmed cases of the middle school group decreased slightly from 1,650 to 1,500.
The quarantine authorities attributed it to the fact that the completion rate of their second vaccination rose to 31.5%.
As of Monday's announcement, the increase in the number of confirmed cases, which had increased by 1,000 every week, decreased for the first time this month.
However, the quarantine authorities said that it is necessary to examine the situation a little more this week to see if the trend has changed.
We also came up with measures for cases of pregnant women who gave birth in an ambulance because they could not find an inpatient ward last week.
Eight hospitals equipped with an isolation system will operate emergency delivery rooms on a daily basis and have decided to designate a dedicated ward.
In addition, four additional outpatient dialysis rooms where kidney disease patients can receive dialysis while in isolation are scheduled to be designated within this month.