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government has decided to maintain the one-week quarantine obligation for corona confirmed patients.
It is predicted that if the quarantine obligation is lifted, the number of confirmed cases per day could increase by more than 8 times.
Reporter Han Seong-hee covered the story.
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maintenance of the 7-day quarantine obligation is in accordance with the prediction that the resurgence will be accelerated when the quarantine is lifted and the scale may be larger than expected.
Even if the quarantine is maintained for 7 days, the number of confirmed cases per day is expected to increase to 17,000 at the end of August due to air conditioning in the summer. .
[Kim Heon-joo/Deputy Director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: When the quarantine obligation is lifted, (infections) change rapidly from July, and at the end of August, up to 8.3 times (days of confirmed cases) can be added compared to maintenance.
The government has decided to assess the epidemic situation every four weeks and decide whether to adjust the quarantine obligation.
The key indicators for easing quarantines were the number of deaths and the fatality rate.
We discuss easing quarantine when the weekly average of 100 deaths or less and the fatality rate is below the flu level of 0.1%.
Last week, the weekly death toll exceeded the standard at 113, and only the fatality rate met the standard at 0.07%.
Prediction of epidemics, excess mortality, the occurrence of mutated viruses, and the capacity of the medical system are also used as auxiliary indicators.
Quarantine duties remain the same, but routine recovery continues.
From the 20th, anyone will be able to visit the nursing hospital without limiting the number of people even if they do not receive the vaccine.
Among the inmates, those who have completed the 4th inoculation or who have been infected after the 2nd inoculation and have been cured can go out and stay overnight.