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Today (22nd), the number of new corona cases is expected to be around 100,000.

The government expects the number to peak next month, reaching a peak of up to 270,000, but sees the current situation as a transition to an endemic disease.

In particular, it was analyzed that people under the age of 50 who were vaccinated were less dangerous than the flu.



Correspondent Kim Deok-hyun.



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It took only a week for the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Korea to increase from 1 million to 2 million.



As the number of confirmed cases skyrocketed, the number of patients with severe severe disease, which decreased to 257 on the 4th, increased to 480.



The government fixed the peak time and scale of the epidemic to a maximum of 270,000 confirmed cases per day in March.



The timing is delayed, and the scale has grown.



However, he explained that there is no need to be overly anxious.



It is a process in which Corona is transformed into an endemic disease through a major epidemic.



A lower risk of Omicron was also seen as a positive sign.



The fatality rate, the proportion of deaths among confirmed patients, was 0.18%, which was not significantly different from seasonal flu, which was at the level of 0.05 to 0.1%, but was low enough to converge to 0% in people in their 50s or younger.



[Park Young-joon / Head of Epidemiological Investigation Team, Central Quarantine Countermeasures Headquarters: The fatality rate is expected to be lower in the third inoculation group than in the unvaccinated group.

Given that the fatality rate of seasonal flu is 0.1%, it is likely to be lower than 0.1%.]



Advance reservations for Novavax vaccination have also started for the general public.



Patients with underlying diseases in their 40s were also included in the subjects receiving the oral treatment Paxrovid, and the government said that 81.8% of patients taking it had improved symptoms.



The Ministry of Education, which had promoted full school attendance for the new semester, changed its policy and made it possible to complete remote classes for two weeks after school starts at the principal's discretion.