Can social distancing stop Omicron? How is the quarantine system?

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Let's learn more about Omicron mutation with medical reporter Dong-chan Cho.

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical Correspondent (specialist): Just last month, there was a country that touched the lockdown card that closed all stores due to omicron mutation. Australia has been a corona-free country for the past two years by using a lot of lockdown cards. Then, after the appearance of Omicron last month, it soared and now exceeds 80,000 people a day. However, the Prime Minister of Australia announced that he would choose to accept Omicron between two options: accepting Omicron and lockdown. France, Denmark, and the UK, which were all messed with lockdown cards, are now on hold, and the US also announced that it is difficult to block Omicron by keeping distance. The conclusion was the same in the study of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Chung-Ang University in Korea published last week in the Journal of the Korean Medical Association.]

[Cho Dong-chan/Medical Correspondent (specialist): Listen to Professor Oh Myeong-don of Seoul National University, Central Clinical Committee for Emerging Infectious Diseases.]

[Myeong-Don Oh/Chairman of Central Clinical Committee for Emerging Infectious Diseases: 95% of Omicron patients do not require hospitalization and 0.1% It is expected that only moderate ventilator treatment will be required. The Omicron epidemic is asking us to lower the K quarantine wall and restore the daily care system.]

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): High-risk groups over the age of 60, who can be dangerous to Omicron, are prepared with a third vaccine, and some of the many mild patients will fall into severe condition. It is important to have such equipment.

In addition, it seems that all hospitals must treat Corona along with other diseases to respond to the crowd of patients and achieve normalization of hospitals.]

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical Correspondent (specialist): Let's hear the words of the National Medical Center Director Ki-hyun Ki-hyun first.]

[Jung Ki-hyun / Director of the National Medical Center: The end of the corona virus, hopeful with Omicron, is not the eradication or end of the coronavirus.

This is the end of the Corona emergency response.]

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): This is the end of the Corona emergency response.

We have a high vaccination rate, and we have a cure, so when the low-toxic omicron epidemic has passed, there will be no need for excessive response as it is now.

However, the variable remains a variable because there is a possibility that other mutations may appear.]