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With the number of new confirmed cases exceeding 170,000 for two days in a row, the number of confirmed cases is increasing, especially among children.

Infants and toddlers who were receiving home treatment also died one after another, first reported by reporter Han Seong-hee.



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On the 22nd, a report called 119 that a 4-month-old boy living in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do was not breathing.



[Emergency crew: Reported that he is not breathing already, so he arrived at the scene and performed CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)…

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The child was diagnosed four days ago and was being treated at home with his parents.



Paramedics performed CPR and rushed him to the hospital, but he died.



On the same day, in Yecheon-gun, Gyeongbuk, a 7-year-old girl who was hospitalized for Corona died.



Her cause of death was 'acute myocarditis'.



Five people under the age of 9 have died since the corona crisis.



All have been released in the last four months since November of last year.



[Lim Sook-young/Director of the Central Quarantine Countermeasure Headquarters: Children under the age of 11 are not currently subject to vaccination.

She's so weak against her oh microns that she's not vaccinated...

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The number of confirmed cases under the age of 9 is increasing rapidly, and yesterday (23rd), 14.4% of the total number of confirmed cases of 171,16 people.



However, the medical response system for them is insufficient.



[Mr-in-law / Father of 3-year-old infant confirmed: The baby is out of breath, and the fever is over 40 degrees, so I contacted the hospital and contacted the public health center (but) the next day there was no contact so I contacted him again…

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The government made it possible for at-home treatment children to be managed by pediatricians during the day and by the Pediatric Counseling Center at night.



The emergency medical center specializing in pediatrics also announced that it would expand from the current three locations to each base.



There is also a hotline between 911 and the emergency room and inpatient wards for special and emergency patients such as children and pregnant women.



The government also said that if the rapid antigen test for experts is positive, it is considering a plan to immediately recognize it as a 'confirmed' without additional PCR test.



(Video coverage: Seol Seol-hwan·Hwang In-seok, video editing: Lee So-young, CG: Seo Seung-hyeon, Jo Su-in, Ban So-hee)