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From next month, families living with the confirmed person will no longer have to self-quarantine even if they have not been vaccinated.

Since the number of at-home healers has already exceeded 650,000, it is said to reduce the burden of field work.



Reporter Kim Deok-hyun will tell you.



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The current criteria for whether or not to self-quarantine the person living with the confirmed person and their family members is whether the vaccination has been completed.



Those who have not been vaccinated, as well as those who have not received the 3rd dose after 90 days have passed since the 2nd dose, must be quarantined for 7 days.



From the 1st of the next month, there is no need to isolate whether or not you have been vaccinated.



Even if 7 days have not passed since quarantine, the quarantine will be lifted from the 1st.



However, students and faculty will take effect from the 14th of the following month in consideration of classes for the new semester. 



The government explains that it will increase the efficiency of home treatment by reducing the burden of contact management.



[Lee Ki-il / Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters 1st Controller: If you do everything in detail about the person living with you, in fact (confirmed) the same day treatment can drop a lot to 70% or less...

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The PCR test, which had to be done twice during the quarantine period, does not need to be done.



Instead, the government recommended that the PCR test be performed within 3 days from the date of testing for the confirmed patient and the rapid antigen test on the 7th day.



If you want a PCR test, you can get it for free.



The government also asked them to stay at home for the first three days and refrain from going out for ten days.



It is also pointed out that such a easing of quarantine is premature at a time when the epidemic is reaching its peak.



It is true that we focus our management capabilities on confirmed cases, especially high-risk groups, but it may encourage the spread, increasing the peak size and prolonging the epidemic. 



[Jeong Gi-seok/Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital: Those who have not received the vaccine are more likely to have family-to-family transmission, so if that happens, the infection will spread.]



Eliminating the duty to quarantine even if you are not vaccinated will drive participation in vaccination There are also claims that it can drop . 



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Choi Hye-young)