Countries that stopped quarantine passes after the peak... Why are we now?

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Let's talk more about the issue of stopping the quarantine pass with Cho Dong-chan, a medical reporter.

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): I heard the stories of the opposition camp, the ruling party camp, and experts who do not belong to the camp.

Opposition experts said that it is difficult for anyone to see the suspension of the quarantine pass as a scientific decision while the death toll is increasing and it is approaching its peak.

On the other hand, experts from the ruling party said that Korea's second vaccination rate is 3rd in the OECD and 7th in the world, so the quarantine pass forcing vaccination is no longer meaningless, and it is a scientific decision to stop it.

An expert on neither side agreed with the direction of deregulation, but evaluated that it could lower the trust of the quarantine authorities, saying that it was embarrassing because it seemed to have been suddenly announced without prior explanation.

Professor Myung-soon Myung-soon of Seoul National University has revealed that the time for instructing the public to quarantine is over, and it is time to give them enough information and let them decide for themselves.]

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): There were not many countries in Europe that would suspend the quarantine pass until last month.

That has changed this month.

Last month, only Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and the United Kingdom lifted quarantine passes, but starting this month, more than 10 countries, including France, Switzerland, Italy, and the Netherlands, have decided to suspend quarantine passes.

However, European countries are different from us in that they stopped the quarantine pass after the peak of the epidemic.

So we have to keep a close look at the trend of severe cases and deaths.]

[Cho Dong-chan/Medical Correspondent (specialist): The US Supreme Court ruled that President Biden's compulsory vaccination order was invalid. I will show you a sentence of that judgment.

It is written that Corona 19 can spread anywhere where people gather, such as homes, schools, and event halls, and the risk is not different from the risk of various infectious diseases.

It means that there is no longer any social benefit to suppress individual freedom, whether it be a vaccine pass or social distancing.

None of the countries where the restrictions have been lifted have spread the infection so far.

However, the most important thing for Omicron is the people's voluntary quarantine.

It is necessary to repeatedly emphasize that we are on an upward trend so that deregulation does not lead to the people's

negligence .]