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Our government said it would be difficult to reduce the self-quarantine period to five days like in the United States right now. Instead, people who have been in close contact with an Omicron infected person have been quarantined for two weeks so far, but from next week it will be reduced to ten days.



For more details, reporter Han Seong-hee will tell you.



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A woman in her 40s has been quarantined for over three weeks at her home since the beginning of this month.



While his eldest son was diagnosed with COVID-19 and was receiving home treatment, his second son and himself were also confirmed.



[Mr./Confirmed quarantined person: From close contact to a confirmed case, to a confirmed case family, to a confirmed case again, a family-to-family infection has occurred, and is currently quarantined for up to 25 days.]



Thanks to the vaccination, I am not very sick, but The isolation has increased my anxiety.



[A/confirmed quarantined person: As the quarantine of 'when will this end' continues to lengthen, the psychological thing about when it will end was so difficult.]



Currently, both the home treatment period of the domestic confirmed patient and the self-quarantine period of close contacts 10 days.



Only family members living in the home caregiver 7 days upon completion of vaccination.



In the case of Omicron mutation, the number of confirmed cases was 10 days and close contacts were 14 days.



This is because 99.1% of the confirmed cases were revealed by the 9th day of quarantine.



Some are even suggesting that the quarantine period for existing confirmed cases, except for Omicron, be shortened.



In the study at the National Medical Center, the period in which a confirmed person spreads the coronavirus intensively was about 3 days before and after the symptom appeared, and the period for weak transmission is also within 5 days after the symptom was discovered.



The quarantine authorities said that it is difficult right now because there is insufficient evidence to reduce the quarantine period to five days like in the United States.



Currently, major countries such as France and Japan are still maintaining the quarantine period for confirmed patients from 10 to 14 days.



(Video coverage: Kim Hyun-sang, Video editing: Kim Ho-jin, CG: Kim Jong-un · Shim Soo-hyun)



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