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Today (13th), the number of new corona cases is expected to reach 4,000. However, experts are focusing on the possibility that the situation will become worse than now as the omicron mutation spreads rapidly in Korea as well. From today to the end of this month, 31,000 people will arrive in Korea for Pfizer's oral medicine, and starting tomorrow, it will be administered to patients free of charge.



Correspondent Park Jae-hyun.



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is a public health center in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon.



Virtual delivery training for 'Paxrovid', a treatment for COVID-19, is in full swing.



Under the assumption that the liver is delivered to immunocompromised patients, the public health center staff requests a prescription from the doctor in charge, then fills the drug at the pharmacy and delivers it to the patient's home.



[Responsible pharmacy pharmacist: You will enter the record of (medication to eat) in stock, right? And (virtual patient name) recorded the prescription for Wonyoung Won. It is discarded after (patients) return it.]



About 21,000 people arrived at 'Pax Lovid' today, and another 10,000 people arrive at the end of this month.



This is 4% of the total volume of 762,000 people contracted with Pfizer.



Prescriptions and medications will be made free of charge starting tomorrow.



The first to take the medication is those who have been diagnosed within 5 days of symptom onset among those with reduced immunity, such as the elderly 65 years of age or older, autoimmune disease patients, and immunodeficiency virus infections.



It does not discriminate whether the person has not been vaccinated or who has been vaccinated.



When the quantity becomes sufficient, the administration target is also expanded.



If the medicine cannot be delivered to your home, a family member who is quarantined with a home healer can visit a pharmacy and pick up a quarantine pass if they have it.



The government hopes that it will also work for those infected with the Omicron mutation.

[Ryu Geun-hyuk / 1st General Coordinator of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters: It has a mechanism to prevent the proliferation of viruses, and therefore it is currently judged that it will have a significant effect on



Omicron mutation.]



The quarantine period will be maintained.



You can be punished even if you sell the medicine to someone else or give it to your family or acquaintances because you have leftover medicine.