Reduced number of confirmed cases, was the quarantine pass effective? How about abroad?

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Let's find out more about the quarantine pass with Cho Dong-chan, a medical professional reporter.

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): I will explain while looking at the graph. This is a graph of the average daily number of confirmed cases per week. It peaked on the 17th of last month and has declined sharply for three weeks. Strong social distancing began on the 18th of last month, limiting the opening hours of restaurants and cafes to 9 and gatherings to 4 people. However, it has decreased since the beginning, so I wonder if it is because of the effect of distance. On the other hand, it was on the 6th of last month that the quarantine pass was expanded to 17 industries including restaurants and cafes. It can be said that the vaccine pass worked, but the strong distance effect that made the self-employed more difficult is a bit vague.]

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): Let's see the screen first. This is a color-coded display of the strength of distance and quarantine passes around the world. It changes like that over time. It was tightened and loosened according to the fashionable situation. At this point in time, the policy of gatherings of four or less in Korea is the strongest. On the other hand, the rate of forced work from home is one of the lowest in the world, and schools are closed less often than in other countries. There is currently no country that has applied the vaccine pass to educational facilities for children and adolescents, so it is practically compulsory to vaccinate. However, some states, such as Washington and LA, are voting on whether to compulsorily vaccinate students over the age of 12.]

[Cho Dong-chan / medical reporter (specialist): In the United States so far, more than 800 18-year-old children and adolescents have died from Corona.

So, director Anthony Fauci, the top authority on infectious diseases in the United States, said that compulsory vaccination of children and adolescents is necessary.

A Harvard Medical School professor wrote a column that Fauci was deceiving America.

In children, with the exception of underlying diseases such as cancer and diabetes, Corona is at the level of a cold, but it is wrong to apply it to all of them.

It is clear that children and adolescents vaccinate themselves less often and spread them less to others, but it seems to require more social discussion to actually force it through a vaccine pass.]

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